{"id":58185,"date":"2023-09-08T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/chinese-law-to-ban-things-that-harm-feelings-of-country-prompts-concern"},"modified":"2023-09-08T20:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:52:36","slug":"chinese-law-to-ban-comments-that-harm-chinas-feelings-prompts-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58185","title":{"rendered":"Chinese law to ban comments that harm China\u2019s \u2018feelings\u2019 prompts concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal experts and bloggers say proposed crimes could be used arbitrarily and lead to more censorship<\/p>\n<p>Proposed changes to a Chinese public security law to criminalise comments, clothing or symbols that \u201cundermine the spirit\u201d or \u201charm the feelings\u201d of China have triggered the concern of legal experts, who say the amendments could be used arbitrarily.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were first made public last week as part of a mandatory \u201csoliciting opinion\u201d process, as concerns mount about the increasingly authoritarian and nationalistic rule of China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/chinese-law-to-ban-things-that-harm-feelings-of-country-prompts-concern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal experts and bloggers say proposed crimes could be used arbitrarily and lead to more censorshipProposed changes to a Chinese public security law to criminalise comments, clothing or symbols that \u201cundermine the spirit\u201d or \u201charm the feelings\u201d of Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185\/revisions\/58186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}