{"id":49327,"date":"2022-10-14T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/we-all-saw-it-anti-xi-jinping-protest-electrifies-chinese-internet"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:30:21","slug":"we-all-saw-it-anti-xi-jinping-protest-electrifies-chinese-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49327","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We all saw it\u2019: anti-Xi Jinping protest electrifies Chinese internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scramble to censor posts about Sitong bridge incident in Beijing where defiant banners were hung and a fire lit in lead-up to Communist party congress<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have strictly censored discussion of a rare protest in Beijing on Thursday that saw large banners unfurled on a flyover calling for boycotts and the removal of Xi Jinping, just days before China\u2019s most important event of its five-year political cycle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/shanghai-covid-restrictions-fuel-fears-of-another-lockdown\">Photos and videos of the protest<\/a> on the Sitong bridge emerged on social media on Thursday afternoon, also showing plumes of smoke billowing from the bridge over a major thoroughfare in the Haidian district of the capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/we-all-saw-it-anti-xi-jinping-protest-electrifies-chinese-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scramble to censor posts about Sitong bridge incident in Beijing where defiant banners were hung and a fire lit in lead-up to Communist party congressChinese authorities have strictly censored discussion of a rare protest in Beijing on Thursday that sa&#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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49327","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=49327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49327\/revisions\/49328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}