{"id":142814,"date":"2025-12-22T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142814"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:00:09","slug":"chinese-spy-propagandist-former-confucius-institute-director-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142814","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spy? Propagandist? Former Confucius Institute director tells his story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Zeng Jinghan accepted an offer to lead the Confucius Institute at Lancaster University in England in 2018, he already had a plan to write a book.<br \/>\n\u201cI thought it would be very interesting if I could write about something that I know a lot about and participate in it personally, like Richard Crossman\u2019s The Diary of a Cabinet Minister,\u201d Zeng said, referring to the British politician\u2019s memoirs published half a century ago.<br \/>\nThe job did not offer higher pay, and he was still an international&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3337265\/chinese-spy-propagandist-former-confucius-institute-director-tells-his-story?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Zeng Jinghan accepted an offer to lead the Confucius Institute at Lancaster University in England in 2018, he already had a plan to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}