{"id":596,"date":"2022-09-29T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=596"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:33","slug":"chinas-absurd-covid-propaganda-stirs-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/29\/chinas-absurd-covid-propaganda-stirs-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018Absurd\u2019 Covid Propaganda Stirs Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/29\/business\/china-covid-propaganda.html\">New York Times<\/a> &#8211; The use of propaganda in the country has been on overdrive in the pandemic, with some Chinese citizens arguing the language has bordered on \u201cnonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have won the great battle against Covid!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistory will remember those who contributed!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExtinguish every outbreak!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is now one of the last places on earth trying to eliminate Covid-19, and the Communist Party has relied heavily on propaganda to justify\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/05\/world\/asia\/china-covid-lockdowns.html\">increasingly long lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/14\/business\/china-covid-testing.html\">burdensome testing requirements<\/a>\u00a0that can sometimes lead to three tests a week.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; The use of propaganda in the country has been on overdrive in the pandemic, with some Chinese citizens arguing the language has bordered on \u201cnonsense.\u201d \u201cWe have won the great battle against Covid!\u201d \u201cHistory will remember those who contributed!\u201d \u201cExtinguish every outbreak!\u201d China is now one of the last places on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}