{"id":3554,"date":"2019-07-17T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/17\/truth-hurts-chinas-envoys-experiment-with-trump-style-twitter-diplomacy"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T02:57:16","slug":"truth-hurts-chinas-envoys-try-out-trump-style-twitter-diplomacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Truth hurts&#8217;: China&#8217;s envoys try out Trump-style Twitter diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s representatives abroad are harnessing social media to confront critics <\/p>\n<p>Chinese envoys are experimenting with a new kind of Trump-style public diplomacy \u2013 Twitter spats.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats abroad, not traditionally known for being outspoken, have started to use the platform to confront Beijing\u2019s critics more directly and aggressively.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/17\/truth-hurts-chinas-envoys-experiment-with-trump-style-twitter-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s representatives abroad are harnessing social media to confront critics Chinese envoys are experimenting with a new kind of Trump-style public diplomacy \u2013 Twitter spats.Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats abroad, not traditionall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,351,238,58,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-internet","category-media","category-technology","category-twitter","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\/3554","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}