{"id":34026,"date":"2021-07-13T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/13\/olympics-chief-thomas-bach-mixes-up-japanese-and-chinese-people-video"},"modified":"2021-07-13T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:20:33","slug":"olympics-chief-thomas-bach-mixes-up-japanese-and-chinese-people-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34026","title":{"rendered":"Olympics chief Thomas Bach mixes up Japanese and Chinese people \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympics Committee president, Thomas Bach, mistakenly referred to Japanese people as &#8216;Chinese&#8217; during a Tokyo 2020 press conference in Japan. The gaffe was not translated by interpreters at the conference. He corrected himself quickly, but the mistake was reported in Japanese media, prompting a backlash on social media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/olympics-chief-refers-to-people-of-japan-as-chinese\">Olympics chief mixes up Japanese and Chinese at Tokyo Games presser<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/13\/olympics-chief-thomas-bach-mixes-up-japanese-and-chinese-people-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympics Committee president, Thomas Bach, mistakenly referred to Japanese people as &#8216;Chinese&#8217; during a Tokyo 2020 press conference in Japan. The gaffe was not translated by interpreters at the conference. He corrected himself quickly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34026","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34026\/revisions\/34043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}