{"id":7949,"date":"2019-08-28T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/chinese-liberal-thinktank-forced-to-close-after-being-declared-illegal"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T06:19:33","slug":"chinese-liberal-thinktank-forced-to-close-after-being-declared-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7949","title":{"rendered":"Chinese liberal thinktank forced to close after being declared illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unirule Institute of Economics founded to promote economic and political liberalisation <\/p>\n<p>One of China\u2019s only independent thinktanks has been ordered to shut down, another sign of the dramatically shrinking space for public debate under the government of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>The Unirule Institute of Economics, one of China\u2019s few remaining outposts of liberal thought, said in a statement on Monday that local authorities had declared the thinktank \u201cunregistered and unauthorised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/chinese-liberal-thinktank-forced-to-close-after-being-declared-illegal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unirule Institute of Economics founded to promote economic and political liberalisation One of China\u2019s only independent thinktanks has been ordered to shut down, another sign of the dramatically shrinking space for public debate under the government of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/7949","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions\/7950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}