{"id":1052,"date":"2023-04-10T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:50:54","slug":"just-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Just criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>10\/04\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-65229269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China jails prominent legal activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC reported that \u2018<em>in response to past criticism about its human rights record, Beijing has said &#8220;only the 1.3 billion* Chinese people have a say on China&#8217;s human rights&#8221;.<\/em>\u2019 It could well have added: \u2018<em>and if any of them exercise their right to have their say, we shall listen to them. In due time there shall be no more criticism<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><sub><sup>* <\/sup><sup>A slight exaggeration may be seen to exist here. The number may be correct if an average lifespan were 50 years and the country had had a population of the current size for about seven times longer than history would allow, otherwise the figure should be 1.3 milliard, roughly 1\u2030 of the number quoted. <\/sup><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/04\/2023 China jails prominent legal activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi The BBC reported that \u2018in response to past criticism about its human rights record, Beijing has said &#8220;only the 1.3 billion* Chinese people have a say on China&#8217;s human rights&#8221;.\u2019 It could well have added: \u2018and if any of them exercise their right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}