{"id":26786,"date":"2018-12-24T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2018-12-24T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:26","slug":"tech-billionaire-has-to-face-public-scrutiny-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26786","title":{"rendered":"Tech billionaire has to face public scrutiny in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>Richard Liu won&#8217;t face sexual assault charges in the United States, but the tech billionaire is having to contend with a renewed bout of public scrutiny at home in China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Prosecutors in Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/21\/business\/richard-liu-sexual-assault-charges\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Friday that they won&#8217;t file charges against Liu, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=JD\" target=\"_blank\">JD<\/a>) who was arrested in August on suspicion of rape.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Liu&#8217;s case has gripped China, where <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/04\/technology\/jd-com-ceo-richard-liu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">billionaire company founders often enjoy celebrity status<\/a>. Social media users have been sounding off in large numbers about the prosecutors&#8217; announcement and Liu&#8217;s response.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)Richard Liu won&#8217;t face sexual assault charges in the United States, but the tech billionaire is having to contend with a renewed bout of public scrutiny at home in China.Prosecutors in Minnesota said Friday that they won&#8217;t file charges against Liu, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com (JD) who was arrested&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}