{"id":32127,"date":"2021-05-16T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/how-missing-cctv-footage-turned-a-chinese-familys-tragedy-into-a-national-conspiracy"},"modified":"2021-05-16T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T15:00:29","slug":"how-missing-cctv-footage-turned-a-chinese-familys-tragedy-into-a-national-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32127","title":{"rendered":"How missing CCTV footage turned a Chinese family\u2019s tragedy into a national conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother\u2019s search for the truth about her son\u2019s death exposes the level of public distrust in China\u2019s leaders<\/p>\n<p>On Mother\u2019s Day last Sunday, 17-year-old Lin Weiqi wished his mother \u2013 referred to only as Madame Lu in Chinese media \u2013 a good day. \u201cMum, enjoy your day,\u201d he said to her that morning. He was Lu\u2019s only child. Like most Chinese parents of the one-child generation, Lin was her pride and joy.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the afternoon, before Lin had gone back to his school in the south-western city of Chengdu, Lu prepared snacks for him in case he was hungry in the evening. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until an hour later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/how-missing-cctv-footage-turned-a-chinese-familys-tragedy-into-a-national-conspiracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother\u2019s search for the truth about her son\u2019s death exposes the level of public distrust in China\u2019s leadersOn Mother\u2019s Day last Sunday, 17-year-old Lin Weiqi wished his mother \u2013 referred to only as Madame Lu in Chinese media \u2013 a good day. \u201cMum, enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,236,238,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-digital-media","category-media","category-social-media","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\/32127","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions\/32138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}