{"id":50646,"date":"2022-11-28T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-censors-maskless-crowd-footage-in-world-cup-broadcasts"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:54:33","slug":"china-censors-maskless-crowd-footage-in-world-cup-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50646","title":{"rendered":"China censors maskless crowd footage in World Cup broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As protesters in Chinese cities rage against Xi Jinping\u2019s zero-Covid policy, TV feeds are edited to avoid crowd scenes<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state television has censored World Cup games to remove shots of maskless crowds after the sight of joyous fans celebrating in packed stadiums stoked anger back home, where hundreds of millions remain under strict pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>A well-attended opening ceremony in Qatar \u2013 with no social distancing \u2013 led to users of Chinese social media platforms complaining that it contrasted with the severe isolation they felt under President Xi Jinping\u2019s zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-censors-maskless-crowd-footage-in-world-cup-broadcasts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As protesters in Chinese cities rage against Xi Jinping\u2019s zero-Covid policy, TV feeds are edited to avoid crowd scenesChinese state television has censored World Cup games to remove shots of maskless crowds after the sight of joyous fans celebrating in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"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":[458,50,2429,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-world-cup-2022","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\/50646","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\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}