{"id":4115,"date":"2019-07-22T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/china-denies-uighurs-turkic-descent-and-says-hostile-forces-trying-to-split-country"},"modified":"2019-07-22T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T04:13:08","slug":"china-denies-uighurs-turkic-descent-and-says-hostile-forces-trying-to-split-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"China denies Uighurs&#8217; Turkic descent and says &#8216;hostile forces&#8217; trying to split country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government said \u2018hostile forces\u2019 wanted to break China apart and called the region of Xinjiang an \u2018inseparable\u2019 part of China <\/p>\n<p>The far northwestern region of Xinjiang is an \u201cinseparable\u201d part of China despite efforts by extremists to distort history and facts in a bid to split the country, the Chinese government said in a document published late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The government said in a white paper published by the State Council Information Office it was wrong to suggest members of Xinjiang\u2019s minority Uighur Muslim community were descended from Turks, noting they had become the political tool of pan-Turkic and pan-Islamic groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/22\/china-denies-uighurs-turkic-descent-and-says-hostile-forces-trying-to-split-country\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government said \u2018hostile forces\u2019 wanted to break China apart and called the region of Xinjiang an \u2018inseparable\u2019 part of China The far northwestern region of Xinjiang is an \u201cinseparable\u201d part of China despite efforts by extremists to distort history&#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":[41,50,67,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-uighurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}