{"id":34221,"date":"2021-07-19T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/brands-sever-ties-chinese-celebrity-kris-wu-date-rape-allegation"},"modified":"2021-07-19T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:02:11","slug":"brands-sever-ties-with-chinese-celebrity-kris-wu-after-date-rape-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34221","title":{"rendered":"Brands sever ties with Chinese celebrity Kris Wu after date rape allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Du Meizhu, 19, accuses ex-boyband member of date-raping her when she was 17<\/p>\n<p>Chinese brands have severed ties with the Chinese-Canadian singer-actor Kris Wu after he was accused of date rape by a student.<\/p>\n<p>Wu shot to fame as a member of the South Korean boyband EXO. After leaving the group in 2014 he pursued a lucrative acting, modelling and singing career in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/brands-sever-ties-chinese-celebrity-kris-wu-date-rape-allegation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Du Meizhu, 19, accuses ex-boyband member of date-raping her when she was 17Chinese brands have severed ties with the Chinese-Canadian singer-actor Kris Wu after he was accused of date rape by a student.Wu shot to fame as a member of the South Korean bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2328,"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":[246,41,244,50,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-south-korea","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\/34221","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\/2328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34222,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions\/34222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}