{"id":59154,"date":"2021-09-16T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=59154"},"modified":"2021-09-16T07:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:56:52","slug":"china-cracks-down-on-financial-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/16\/china-cracks-down-on-financial-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"China cracks down on financial bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d5725cb3-169c-442f-953e-077bb926f4c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FT has reported<\/a> this morning that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty of obtaining reliable data about the world\u2019s second-biggest economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It added that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The internet regulator is clamping down on market sceptics and those who voice pessimistic opinions about the Chinese economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A sign of times to come?<\/p>\n<p>Most certainly worrying, but also some indication of how important alternative views now are.<\/p>\n<p>How long will it be before other governments seek to support market hype by cracking down on contrary opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has reported this morning that: China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move that risks exacerbating the difficulty<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/09\/16\/china-cracks-down-on-financial-bloggers\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}