{"id":50584,"date":"2022-11-27T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/26\/china-protests-break-out-in-xinjiang-following-deadly-high-rise-fire-under-lockdown-video"},"modified":"2022-11-27T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:31:16","slug":"china-protests-break-out-in-xinjiang-following-deadly-high-rise-fire-under-lockdown-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50584","title":{"rendered":"China: protests break out in Xinjiang following deadly high-rise fire under lockdown \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have broken out in China&#8217;s far western Xinjiang region, in the latest demonstration of public anger towards the country&#8217;s zero-Covid policy and strict lockdown rules. Crowds chanted &#8216;End the lockdown&#8217; at hazmat-suited guards following a fire in a high-rise building that killed 10 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang&#8217;s capital. According to users on Chinese social media, the lockdown hampered escape efforts, but authorities strongly deny this. The Chinese government says it will continue a zero-Covid policy despite protests and a mounting toll on the economy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/26\/covid-lockdown-protests-break-out-in-western-china-after-deadly-fire\">Covid lockdown protests break out in western China after deadly fire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/26\/china-protests-break-out-in-xinjiang-following-deadly-high-rise-fire-under-lockdown-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have broken out in China&#8217;s far western Xinjiang region, in the latest demonstration of public anger towards the country&#8217;s zero-Covid policy and strict lockdown rules. Crowds chanted &#8216;End the lockdown&#8217; at hazmat-suited guards following a fire i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,1066,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50584","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50585,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50584\/revisions\/50585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}