{"id":61673,"date":"2024-02-05T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/comments-on-weibo-giraffe-post-bemoan-state-of-chinese-economy"},"modified":"2024-02-05T23:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:59:22","slug":"comments-on-weibo-giraffe-post-bemoan-state-of-chinese-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61673","title":{"rendered":"Comments on Weibo giraffe post bemoan state of Chinese economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users get around government crackdown on negativity by taking to US embassy conservation update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A social media post about giraffe conservation has become the latest place for people in China who are unhappy about the economy to vent their frustration, as the Chinese government increasingly cracks down on negative commentary.<\/p>\n<p>On 2 February, the US embassy in China posted an update on its Weibo account about tracking giraffes in Namibia using GPS technology. As of Monday afternoon local time, the post had received approximately 166,000 comments, many of them about China\u2019s economic pains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/comments-on-weibo-giraffe-post-bemoan-state-of-chinese-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users get around government crackdown on negativity by taking to US embassy conservation updateA social media post about giraffe conservation has become the latest place for people in China who are unhappy about the economy to vent their f&#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":[41,50,235,600,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-social-media","category-stock-markets","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\/61673","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=61673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions\/61681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}