{"id":74384,"date":"2025-09-22T20:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/arcteryx-fireworks-display-tibet-environmental-outcry"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:19","slug":"arcteryx-fireworks-display-in-tibet-prompts-environmental-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74384","title":{"rendered":"Arc\u2019teryx fireworks display in Tibet prompts environmental outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor brand says the Rising Dragon promotional event was out of line with its values after public criticism<\/p>\n<p>The outdoor brand Arc\u2019teryx has issued an apology after a promotional fireworks display in the Tibetan plateau led to an outcry over potential environmental damage.<\/p>\n<p>The promotional Rising Dragon high-altitude show involved long stretches of choreographed pyrotechnics and coloured smoke along snow-topped Himalayan ridgelines in the Tibetan region of Shigatse. The Canadian company, part-owned by China\u2019s Anta Group, had partnered with a Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, who oversaw similar shows for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/arcteryx-fireworks-display-tibet-environmental-outcry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor brand says the Rising Dragon promotional event was out of line with its values after public criticismThe outdoor brand Arc\u2019teryx has issued an apology after a promotional fireworks display in the Tibetan plateau led to an outcry over potential &#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":[41,50,335,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-retail-industry","category-tibet","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\/74384","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=74384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74384\/revisions\/74385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}