{"id":60793,"date":"2023-12-29T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/29\/china-cracks-down-on-negativity-over-economy-in-bid-to-boost-confidence"},"modified":"2023-12-29T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:00:55","slug":"china-cracks-down-on-negativity-over-economy-in-bid-to-boost-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60793","title":{"rendered":"China cracks down on negativity over economy in bid to boost confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record high youth unemployment and struggling property sector are among increasingly sensitive topics<\/p>\n<p>China is cracking down on negative commentary about the financial market and other sectors as the authorities seek to boost public confidence despite challenging economic headwinds.<\/p>\n<p>This month the Weibo account Weibo Finance, which has more than 1.5 million followers, issued an instruction against posting any comments \u201cthat bad-mouth the economy\u201d. The post appears to have since been deleted. Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-15\/china-s-weibo-asks-bloggers-to-avoid-badmouthing-the-economy\">reported<\/a> that several other finance influencers had been told by Weibo to \u201cavoid crossing red lines\u201d and to post less about the economy. Weibo did not reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/29\/china-cracks-down-on-negativity-over-economy-in-bid-to-boost-confidence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record high youth unemployment and struggling property sector are among increasingly sensitive topicsChina is cracking down on negative commentary about the financial market and other sectors as the authorities seek to boost public confidence despite c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,6,50,556,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","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\/60793","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions\/60794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}