{"id":57017,"date":"2023-07-27T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/qin-gang-china-foreign-ministry-transcript-missing-replaced"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:30:58","slug":"chinas-foreign-ministry-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-qin-gang-and-scrubs-mention-from-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57017","title":{"rendered":"China criticises \u2018malicious hype\u2019 over Qin Gang disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry spokesperson comments on speculation a day after refusing to answer questions about ex-minister<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs has labelled speculation over the whereabouts of Qin Gang as \u201cmalicious hype\u201d while continuing to refuse further details about the missing former foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>At a daily press conference in Beijing, the ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Mao Ning, said China had released information about Qin \u201cin a timely manner\u201d. \u201cWe consistently oppose malicious hype of this matter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/27\/qin-gang-china-foreign-ministry-transcript-missing-replaced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry spokesperson comments on speculation a day after refusing to answer questions about ex-ministerChina\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs has labelled speculation over the whereabouts of Qin Gang as \u201cmalicious hype\u201d while continuing to refuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/57017","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57017\/revisions\/57023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}