{"id":42259,"date":"2022-03-08T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/chinese-students-fled-ukraine-condemn-embassy-response"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:32:01","slug":"it-came-too-late-chinese-students-who-fled-ukraine-criticise-embassy-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42259","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It came too late\u2019: Chinese students who fled Ukraine criticise embassy response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Chinese state media praises efficiency of diplomatic mission, stranded citizens tell a very different story<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Ukraine-Russia conflict: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Yang, a 22-year-old classical music student in Kyiv, called the Chinese embassy in the city to seek help. He tried several times but the line was engaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why the embassy didn\u2019t tell us the war was going to break out when other countries advised their citizens to leave days before,\u201d he said. Yang then followed his university\u2019s emergency protocols and took refuge in a bomb shelter. Days later an escape route began to circulate among his friends. He decided to follow the instruction and flee on his own.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/chinese-students-fled-ukraine-condemn-embassy-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Chinese state media praises efficiency of diplomatic mission, stranded citizens tell a very different storyUkraine-Russia conflict: latest updatesImmediately after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Yang, a 22-year-old classical music student&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,221,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42271,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42259\/revisions\/42271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}