{"id":45091,"date":"2022-06-02T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/shanghai-reportedly-bans-media-use-lockdown-china"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:36:18","slug":"shanghai-reportedly-bans-media-use-of-the-term-lockdown-as-lockdown-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45091","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai reportedly bans media use of the term \u2018lockdown\u2019 as lockdown ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked directive reportedly shows that Chinese media were ordered to describe the two-month restrictions as \u2018static management-style suppression\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities in Shanghai have reportedly ordered the media to refrain from using the term \u201clockdown\u201d while reporting on the end of the city\u2019s two-month lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/shanghais-subway-and-shops-reopen-and-streets-fill-up-after-two-month-lockdown\">the Chinese city of 25 million people reopened<\/a>, allowing most to leave their homes, go to work, and use public transport after more than 60 days inside. On Thursday, according to leaked directives from the city, Chinese media were told to disseminate information about the changes to restrictions, but ordered not to use the phrase \u201cending the lockdown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/shanghai-reportedly-bans-media-use-lockdown-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked directive reportedly shows that Chinese media were ordered to describe the two-month restrictions as \u2018static management-style suppression\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in Shanghai have reportedly ordered the media to refrain from u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45091","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45091\/revisions\/45092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}