{"id":35578,"date":"2021-08-20T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/20\/water-protests-in-pakistan-erupt-against-chinas-belt-and-road-plan"},"modified":"2021-08-20T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:27:43","slug":"protests-in-pakistan-erupt-against-chinas-belt-and-road-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35578","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Pakistan erupt against China\u2019s belt and road plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrations shut down Gwadar, where Chinese are blamed for lack of water and electricity and threat to local fishing<\/p>\n<p>Protests have erupted in Pakistan\u2019s port city Gwadar against a severe shortage of water and electricity and threats to livelihoods blamed on the Chinese. It is part of a growing backlash against China\u2019s multibillion-dollar belt and road projects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This week, demonstrators including fishers and other local workers blocked the roads in Gwadar, a coastal town in Balochistan. They burned tyres, chanted slogans, and shut down the city, to demand water and electricity and a stop to Chinese trawlers illegally fishing in the nearby waters and then taking the fish to China. Two people were injured when the authorities cracked down on the protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/20\/water-protests-in-pakistan-erupt-against-chinas-belt-and-road-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrations shut down Gwadar, where Chinese are blamed for lack of water and electricity and threat to local fishingProtests have erupted in Pakistan\u2019s port city Gwadar against a severe shortage of water and electricity and threats to livelihoods bl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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":[41,412,50,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35578","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions\/35621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}