{"id":51003,"date":"2022-12-08T22:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/chinese-students-uk-china-covid-policies-diplomacy"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:45:57","slug":"chinese-students-in-uk-told-to-resist-distorting-chinas-covid-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51003","title":{"rendered":"Chinese students in UK told to \u2018resist distorting\u2019 China\u2019s Covid policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: comments by diplomat involved in recent Manchester clash appeared threatening, student says<\/p>\n<p>A senior Chinese diplomat involved in the recent violence against pro-democracy protesters in Manchester has suggested Chinese students in Britain should \u201cresist distorting and discrediting\u201d China\u2019s Covid policies.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by China\u2019s consul general in Manchester, Zheng Xiyuan, at a symposium to discuss the work of international students were said by Lyndon Lee, 23, a second-year law student at the University of York, to appear threatening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/chinese-students-uk-china-covid-policies-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: comments by diplomat involved in recent Manchester clash appeared threatening, student saysA senior Chinese diplomat involved in the recent violence against pro-democracy protesters in Manchester has suggested Chinese students in Britain sho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[41,50,1066,615,862,693,52,2718,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-education","category-higher-education","category-students","category-uk-news","category-university-of-york","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\/51003","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions\/51004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}