{"id":50689,"date":"2022-11-30T00:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/29\/awkward-silence-china-official-speechless-after-question-on-protests-video"},"modified":"2022-11-30T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:35:58","slug":"awkward-silence-china-official-speechless-after-question-on-protests-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50689","title":{"rendered":"Awkward silence: China official speechless after question on protests \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry has defended the Communist party&#8217;s zero-Covid policy amid rare protests within the country.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, paused for a long time when asked by a reporter if China would reconsider the policy given people&#8217;s widespread &#8216;anger and frustration&#8217;. He eventually asked for the question to be repeated and then said it &#8216;did not reflect what actually happened&#8217;. He said China had been following a &#8216;dynamic zero-Covid policy&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-police-move-to-deter-zero-covid-demonstrations-and-trace-protesters\">China police move to deter zero-Covid demonstrations and trace protesters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/29\/awkward-silence-china-official-speechless-after-question-on-protests-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s foreign ministry has defended the Communist party&#8217;s zero-Covid policy amid rare protests within the country.The foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, paused for a long time when asked by a reporter if China would reconsider the policy giv&#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":[50,1066,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-protest","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\/50689","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=50689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50689\/revisions\/50734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}