{"id":45219,"date":"2022-06-07T02:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/chinese-star-taken-offline-after-showing-tank-cake-on-tiananmen-anniversary"},"modified":"2022-06-07T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:55:06","slug":"chinese-star-taken-offline-after-showing-tank-cake-on-tiananmen-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45219","title":{"rendered":"Chinese star taken offline after showing \u2018tank cake\u2019 on Tiananmen anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Jiaqi, a blogger with millions of fans, had his live stream abruptly cut on Friday, and has posted nothing since<\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s top bloggers has gone silent after livestreaming footage of a cake apparently shaped like a tank just before the anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tiananmen-square-protests-1989\">Tiananmen Square <\/a>massacre, prompting debate over the highly sensitive event among tens of millions of young fans.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion of the crackdown on 4 June 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protesters, is all but forbidden on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/chinese-star-taken-offline-after-showing-tank-cake-on-tiananmen-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Jiaqi, a blogger with millions of fans, had his live stream abruptly cut on Friday, and has posted nothing sinceOne of China\u2019s top bloggers has gone silent after livestreaming footage of a cake apparently shaped like a tank just before the anniversa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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":[41,2042,50,236,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-blogging","category-china","category-digital-media","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/45219","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45225,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219\/revisions\/45225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}