{"id":75814,"date":"2025-12-30T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/former-chinese-police-officer-bringing-bubble-tea-to-wartorn-ukraine"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:00:39","slug":"a-little-light-in-the-dark-the-former-chinese-police-officer-bringing-bubble-tea-to-wartorn-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75814","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A little light in the dark\u2019: the former Chinese police officer bringing bubble tea to wartorn Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Dong is one of a growing band of Chinese volunteers who are lending their support to Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for a way to stay sane in an environment that has been torn apart by war? Then perhaps what you need is a bubble tea.<\/p>\n<p>That is the philosophy guiding Brother Dong, a Chinese-German volunteer in Ukraine. The 52-year-old former officer in China\u2019s People\u2019s Armed Police drives once a month from his home in Frankfurt to collect a haul of tapioca pearls from a warehouse in Berlin. From there he drives across Poland to reach Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/former-chinese-police-officer-bringing-bubble-tea-to-wartorn-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Dong is one of a growing band of Chinese volunteers who are lending their support to UkraineAre you looking for a way to stay sane in an environment that has been torn apart by war? Then perhaps what you need is a bubble tea.That is the philoso&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/75814","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\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75815,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75814\/revisions\/75815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}