{"id":50643,"date":"2022-11-28T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T06:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/how-chinese-media-have-and-havent-covered-widespread-protests-against-zero-covid"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T06:31:27","slug":"how-chinese-media-have-and-havent-covered-widespread-protests-against-zero-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50643","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese media have \u2013 and haven\u2019t \u2013 covered widespread protests against zero-Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run media outlets largely ignore nationwide protests, but continue to push the importance of Covid restrictions<\/p>\n<p>Chinese media have largely ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china\">widespread protests across the country<\/a>, with prominent state newspaper front pages instead choosing to focus on Taiwan\u2019s local elections, a Chinese-built solar plant in Qatar and the rising number of Chinese women choosing to get tanned in beauty salons.<\/p>\n<p>Protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-amid-growing-anger-at-zero-covid-strategy\">flared across Chinese cities over the weekend<\/a>, with calls for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/how-chinese-media-have-and-havent-covered-widespread-protests-against-zero-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run media outlets largely ignore nationwide protests, but continue to push the importance of Covid restrictionsChinese media have largely ignored widespread protests across the country, with prominent state newspaper front pages instead choosing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3460,"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":[41,50,1066,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/50643","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\/3460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50643\/revisions\/50644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}