{"id":8571,"date":"2019-09-06T00:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/berlins-panda-cubs-cause-debate-about-chinese-human-rights"},"modified":"2019-09-06T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:34:57","slug":"hong-and-kong-berlins-panda-cubs-at-centre-of-chinese-human-rights-row-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8571","title":{"rendered":"Hong and Kong? Berlin&#8217;s panda cubs at centre of Chinese human rights row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition to name Meng Meng\u2019s twins intensifies pressure on German government<\/p>\n<p>They may have captured the public\u2019s imagination, but the tiny, pink panda cubs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/02\/berlin-zoo-celebrates-rare-birth-of-panda-twins\">born at Berlin zoo<\/a> a few days ago have also spurred a national debate about whether panda diplomacy is blinding Germany to the Chinese government\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>As visitors and journalists queue around the block to catch a glimpse of Meng Meng\u2019s cubs, a competition to name them has increased pressure on the government of Angela Merkel, who kicked off a trip to Beijing with a large economic delegation on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/berlins-panda-cubs-cause-debate-about-chinese-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition to name Meng Meng\u2019s twins intensifies pressure on German governmentThey may have captured the public\u2019s imagination, but the tiny, pink panda cubs born at Berlin zoo a few days ago have also spurred a national debate about whether panda dipl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"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":[711,586,265,41,50,221,533,682,48,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angela-merkel","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","category-giant-pandas","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}