{"id":40292,"date":"2022-01-04T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/tesla-criticised-for-opening-showroom-in-xinjiang-despite-human-rights-abuses"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:38:46","slug":"tesla-criticised-for-opening-showroom-in-xinjiang-despite-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40292","title":{"rendered":"Tesla criticised for opening showroom in Xinjiang despite human rights abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and Tesla must consider human rights in the Chinese region or risk being complicit, says Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has opened a new showroom in the capital of Xinjiang, a region at the heart of years-long campaign by Chinese authorities of repression and assimilation against the Uyghur people.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla announced the opening in Urumqi with a Weibo post on 31 December saying: \u201cOn the last day of 2021, we meet in Xinjiang. In 2022 let us together launch Xinjiang on its electric journey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/tesla-criticised-for-opening-showroom-in-xinjiang-despite-human-rights-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and Tesla must consider human rights in the Chinese region or risk being complicit, says Human Rights WatchTesla has opened a new showroom in the capital of Xinjiang, a region at the heart of years-long campaign by Chinese authorities of repr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,6,50,1978,558,557,2475,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-elon-musk","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-tesla","category-uyghurs","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40293,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions\/40293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}