{"id":42044,"date":"2022-02-28T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion"},"modified":"2022-02-28T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T03:04:28","slug":"they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42044","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They were fooled by Putin\u2019: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter written by five historians denounced the war and called on Beijing to make its stance clearer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Ukraine invasion: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Xu Guoqi, a Chinese historian, Beijing\u2019s reluctance to denounce Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is alarming. \u201cI\u2019m a historian of the first world war. Europe sleep-walked into a huge conflict over 100 years ago, which also had had enormous consequences for China,\u201d Xu said. \u201cThe world may be at the point of no return again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But looking at how Chinese diplomats are responding to it, and how Chinese people have talked about it on social media in the past week, he said, \u201cI\u2019m afraid it seems we still have not learned the lessons of the past tragedies. As a historian I\u2019m very disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter written by five historians denounced the war and called on Beijing to make its stance clearerUkraine invasion: latest updatesFor Xu Guoqi, a Chinese historian, Beijing\u2019s reluctance to denounce Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is alar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/42044","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\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42058,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions\/42058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}