{"id":40540,"date":"2022-01-11T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/11\/intel-deletes-mention-of-xinjiang-in-letter-after-china-backlash"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T05:16:31","slug":"intel-deletes-mention-of-xinjiang-in-letter-after-china-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40540","title":{"rendered":"Intel deletes mention of Xinjiang in letter after China backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US chipmaker was criticised in China for asking suppliers to avoid the sanctions-hit region, and now faces \u2018cowardice\u2019 accusation at home<\/p>\n<p>US chipmaker Intel has deleted references to Xinjiang from an annual letter to suppliers after the company faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/intel-faces-backlash-in-china-after-banning-products-and-labour-from-xinjiang\">backlash<\/a> in China for asking suppliers to avoid the sanctions-hit region.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Intel was slammed on Chinese social media for a letter to suppliers published on its website. The 23 December letter said Intel had been \u201crequired to ensure that its supply chain does not use any labour or source goods or services from the Xinjiang region\u201d following restrictions imposed by \u201cmultiple governments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/11\/intel-deletes-mention-of-xinjiang-in-letter-after-china-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US chipmaker was criticised in China for asking suppliers to avoid the sanctions-hit region, and now faces \u2018cowardice\u2019 accusation at homeUS chipmaker Intel has deleted references to Xinjiang from an annual letter to suppliers after the company faced a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,1844,58,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-intel","category-technology","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions\/40541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}