{"id":7615,"date":"2022-10-31T13:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/uk-minister-criticised-over-crass-and-archaic-trope-about-chinese-people\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:38:29","slug":"uk-minister-criticised-over-crass-and-archaic-trope-about-chinese-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/uk-minister-criticised-over-crass-and-archaic-trope-about-chinese-people\/","title":{"rendered":"UK minister criticised over \u2018crass and archaic\u2019 trope about Chinese people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Spencer spoke of possibility \u2018some little man in China\u2019 could be listening in to his conversations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/oct\/31\/conservatives-roger-gale-migrant-centre-manston-suella-braverman-home-office-commons-rishi-sunak-uk-politics-live\">UK politics live \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A UK government minister has been criticised for using a \u201ccrass and archaic\u201d trope when talking about Chinese people during a broadcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>The environment minister Mark Spencer referred to the possibility that \u201csome little man in China\u201d could be listening in to his conversations when discussing reports a device belonging to the former prime minister and foreign secretary Liz Truss had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/29\/government-urged-to-investigate-report-liz-truss-phone-was-hacked\">compromised by foreign agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/31\/uk-minister-mark-spencer-criticised-crass-trope-chinese-people-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3c2c584f77aa3e1bb911b6a0b9f09648a7a78e34\/0_59_2333_1400\/master\/2333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6d7f7fa2da17d93803adbaf93c3ce3dc\" title=\"UK minister criticised over \u2018crass and archaic\u2019 trope about Chinese people\" \/>Mark Spencer spoke of possibility \u2018some little man in China\u2019 could be listening in to his conversations<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest news updates<br \/>\nA UK government minister has been criticised for using a \u201ccrass and archaic\u201d trope when talking about Chinese people during a broadcast interview.<br \/>\nThe environment minister Mark Spencer referred to the possibility that \u201csome little man in China\u201d could be listening in to his conversations when discussing reports a device belonging to the former prime minister and foreign secretary Liz Truss had been compromised by foreign agents. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Spencer spoke of possibility \u2018some little man in China\u2019 could be listening in to his conversations UK politics live \u2013 latest news updates A UK government minister has been criticised for using a \u201ccrass and archaic\u201d trope when talking about Chinese people during a broadcast interview. The environment minister Mark Spencer referred to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/uk-minister-criticised-over-crass-and-archaic-trope-about-chinese-people\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK minister criticised over \u2018crass and archaic\u2019 trope about Chinese people<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}