{"id":31738,"date":"2021-05-04T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/04\/chinese-man-seeking-freedom-and-equality-says-he-travelled-to-taiwan-in-dinghy"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T05:09:31","slug":"chinese-man-seeking-freedom-and-equality-says-he-travelled-to-taiwan-in-dinghy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31738","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man seeking \u2018freedom and equality\u2019 says he travelled to Taiwan in dinghy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man told police he arrived in a 2.6m rubber dinghy he bought online<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese man seeking \u201cfreedom and equality\u201d has said he travelled undetected to Taiwan in a dinghy through the heavily patrolled Taiwan strait, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Taichung Port police officers detained the man, surnamed Zhou, after they received reports of a man behaving suspiciously near the docks. A police spokesperson said Zhou told officers he had travelled from Quanzhou in Fujian province, in a 2.6m long rubber dinghy he\u2019d bought online, powered by an outboard motor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/04\/chinese-man-seeking-freedom-and-equality-says-he-travelled-to-taiwan-in-dinghy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man told police he arrived in a 2.6m rubber dinghy he bought onlineA Chinese man seeking \u201cfreedom and equality\u201d has said he travelled undetected to Taiwan in a dinghy through the heavily patrolled Taiwan strait, according to authorities.Taichung Po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31739,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31738\/revisions\/31739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}