{"id":49873,"date":"2022-11-01T22:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/chinese-city-zhengzhou-accused-of-performative-lockdown-lifting"},"modified":"2022-11-01T22:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:05:23","slug":"chinese-city-accused-of-performative-lockdown-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49873","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city accused of \u2018performative lockdown lifting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents claim Zhengzhou authorities are trying to avoid scrutiny of Covid lockdown\u2019s severity<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Zhengzhou have been accused of \u201cperformative lockdown lifting\u201d after they partially lifted restrictions amid growing pressure from residents and the reported arrival of state media.<\/p>\n<p>An almost month-long lockdown in the Chinese city of about 12 million people had prompted complaints of arduous conditions, sometimes violent enforcement, inadequate medical care, and worsening mental health. But a sudden decision to ease restrictions on Tuesday was greeted by some residents with scepticism and anger.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/chinese-city-zhengzhou-accused-of-performative-lockdown-lifting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents claim Zhengzhou authorities are trying to avoid scrutiny of Covid lockdown\u2019s severityAuthorities in Zhengzhou have been accused of \u201cperformative lockdown lifting\u201d after they partially lifted restrictions amid growing pressure from residents a&#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/49873","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=49873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49874,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions\/49874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}