{"id":323,"date":"2007-11-06T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/11\/dont-toy-with-china\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:55","slug":"dont-toy-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/11\/dont-toy-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Toy With China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an op-ed piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiamedia.ucla.edu\/article.asp?parentid=79263\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Toy With China&#8221;<\/a>  for ASIA MEDIA, a web journal run by the UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE.\u00a0 The piece looks at how the real issue of toy safety has been blown up by the recent uproar and outrage (or is it outroar and uprage?) fueled by hypocrisy and not a little whiff of racism.<\/p>\n<p>I try to distinguish proportionate reactions to real problems from the flaps, scares, panics, smears, and political foolery which have marked the relations between the United States and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an op-ed piece &#8220;Don&#8217;t Toy With China&#8221; for ASIA MEDIA, a web journal run by the UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE.\u00a0 The piece looks at how the real issue of toy safety has been blown up by the recent uproar and outrage (or is it outroar and uprage?) fueled by hypocrisy and not a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[165,17,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-us","category-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-5d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}