{"id":39849,"date":"2021-12-16T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/editor-of-chinese-state-tabloid-global-times-retires"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:05:49","slug":"outspoken-editor-of-chinese-state-tabloid-global-times-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39849","title":{"rendered":"Outspoken editor of Chinese state tabloid Global Times retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hu Xijin became leading voice of strident nationalism with millions of social media followers<\/p>\n<p>A controversial Chinese state tabloid editor who became a leading critic of the west\u2019s China policy, emerging in the past decade as a prominent voice of strident nationalism, has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Hu Xijin, a self-described former pro-democracy protester turned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/dec\/14\/china-troll-king-hu-xijin-tabloid-editor-became-voice-chinese-nationalism\">outspoken newspaper editor<\/a>, has helped usher in a new era of brash, assertive nationalism since taking the helm of the tabloid Global Times in 2005.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/16\/editor-of-chinese-state-tabloid-global-times-retires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hu Xijin became leading voice of strident nationalism with millions of social media followersA controversial Chinese state tabloid editor who became a leading critic of the west\u2019s China policy, emerging in the past decade as a prominent voice of stride&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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":[41,50,238,2427,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-media","category-peng-shuai","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39849","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39850,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39849\/revisions\/39850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}