{"id":34032,"date":"2021-07-13T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T08:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/olympics-chief-refers-to-people-of-japan-as-chinese"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T08:49:25","slug":"olympics-chief-mixes-up-japanese-and-chinese-at-tokyo-games-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34032","title":{"rendered":"Olympics chief mixes up Japanese and Chinese at Tokyo Games presser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaffe by International Olympic Committee president triggers backlash on social media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thomas Bach\u2019s attempts to win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/may\/10\/tokyo-olympics-poll-shows-60-of-japanese-people-want-games-cancelled\">reluctant hosts<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Games<\/a> got off to an embarrassing start on Tuesday when the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) referred to the people of Japan as \u201cChinese\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his first public comments since arriving in Tokyo last week, Bach attempted to reassure the public that the Games would not become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> super-spreader event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/olympics-chief-refers-to-people-of-japan-as-chinese\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaffe by International Olympic Committee president triggers backlash on social mediaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThomas Bach\u2019s attempts to win over the reluctant hosts of the Tokyo 2020 Games got off to an embarrassing st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[1066,2206,88,342,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-international-olympic-committee","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032\/revisions\/34033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}