{"id":243381,"date":"2020-01-29T05:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243381"},"modified":"2020-01-29T05:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:16:32","slug":"china-demands-apology-for-satirical-cartoon-in-denmark-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/29\/china-demands-apology-for-satirical-cartoon-in-denmark-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"China demands apology for \u2018satirical\u2019 cartoon in Denmark newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"da\">Bladtegnere om Kina-tegning: Den er \u00bbfantastisk\u00ab og \u00bbelegant\u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2kMfO8OhYy\">https:\/\/t.co\/2kMfO8OhYy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDGgZyZPvx\">pic.twitter.com\/SDGgZyZPvx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jyllands-Posten (@jyllandsposten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jyllandsposten\/status\/1222126193517809667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>China demandes a public apology from Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it published a satirical cartoon depicting the five stars in the national flag of the Republic of China as coronavirus particles last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe express our strong indignation and demand that Jyllands-posten and Niels Bo Bojesen reproach themselves for their mistake and publicly apologize to the Chinese people,\u201d the Chinese Embassy in Denmark said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Denmark said in a statement that Jyllands-Posten and Danish artist Niels Bo Bojesen should apologize to the Chinese people for the satirical drawing, claiming that it\u2019s \u201clacking any form of sympathy or empathy\u201d and it\u2019s an \u201cinsult to China and hurts the feelings of the Chinese people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The embassy also stated that the illustration published by the daily newspaper \u201chas crossed the bottom line of civilized society and the ethical boundary of free speech and offends human conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jyllands-Posten managing editor Jacob Nybroe refused to apologize for the cartoon that the newspaper published, and said that the paper did not intend to make fun of the situation that China, where the outbreak originated from which has killed 106 people and infected thousands of others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot apologize for something that we don\u2019t believe is wrong,\u201d Nybroe told Danish newswire Ritzau. \u201cWe have no intention of demeaning or mocking the situation in China and we don\u2019t think the drawing does that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Danish politicians have expressed their support for the newspaper, stating that freedom of speech has been prevalent in the country ever since. Conservative Party leader S\u00f8ren Pape Poulsen wrote in Danish on Twitter: \u201cFull support for Jyllands-Posten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that Denmark has a very strong tradition of freedom of speech. \u201cI have nothing to say on the matter other than [to note that] we have a very strong tradition in Denmark not just for freedom of speech but also for freedom of satire, and we\u2019ll continue to have that in the future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bladtegnere om Kina-tegning: Den er \u00bbfantastisk\u00ab og \u00bbelegant\u00ab https:\/\/t.co\/2kMfO8OhYy pic.twitter.com\/SDGgZyZPvx \u2014 Jyllands-Posten (@jyllandsposten) January 28, 2020 China demandes a public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":243382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-kathleen-mae-guerrero","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243384,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243381\/revisions\/243384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}