{"id":9183,"date":"2019-09-20T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/chinese-journalists-to-be-tested-on-loyalty-to-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2019-09-20T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T12:09:35","slug":"chinese-journalists-to-be-tested-on-loyalty-to-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9183","title":{"rendered":"Chinese journalists to be tested on loyalty to Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exam will test journalists on president\u2019s teachings on socialism and propaganda<\/p>\n<p>Chinese journalists will soon be required to pass a test grading their understanding of Xi Jinping Thought, the socialist teachings espoused by the country\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p>A notice from China\u2019s media regulator has been sent to more than a dozen state-owned news organisations in Beijing over the last month. It instructs employees to prepare to take an exam on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/15\/chinas-most-popular-app-brings-xi-jinping-to-your-pocket\">\u201cstudy Xi\u201d propaganda app<\/a><em>, <\/em>launched earlier this year, in order to have their press credential renewed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/chinese-journalists-to-be-tested-on-loyalty-to-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exam will test journalists on president\u2019s teachings on socialism and propagandaChinese journalists will soon be required to pass a test grading their understanding of Xi Jinping Thought, the socialist teachings espoused by the country\u2019s leader.A notice&#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-9183","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\/9183","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=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}