{"id":57267,"date":"2023-08-04T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/anger-in-china-over-plan-to-use-cities-as-moat-to-save-beijing-from-floods"},"modified":"2023-08-04T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:07:00","slug":"anger-in-china-over-plan-to-use-cities-as-moat-to-save-beijing-from-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57267","title":{"rendered":"Anger in China over plan to use cities as \u2018moat\u2019 to save Beijing from floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communist party secretary for Hebei made comments after visiting flood-hit areas earlier this week<\/p>\n<p>Chinese social media users have reacted angrily to comments from a local Communist party official suggesting that the city of Zhuozhou and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/beijing-reports-heaviest-rain-140-years-china-g20-climate-talks\">flood-hit areas near Beijing<\/a> should be used as a \u201cmoat for the capital\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ni Yuefeng, the Communist party secretary for Hebei, a province that borders the capital on three sides, made the comments after visiting flooded areas earlier this week. Typhoon Doksuri has ripped through north-east China, destroying homes and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/04\/anger-in-china-over-plan-to-use-cities-as-moat-to-save-beijing-from-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist party secretary for Hebei made comments after visiting flood-hit areas earlier this weekChinese social media users have reacted angrily to comments from a local Communist party official suggesting that the city of Zhuozhou and other flood-hit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,2331,455,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","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\/57267","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267\/revisions\/57268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}