{"id":156258,"date":"2026-08-19T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156258"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:00:08","slug":"what-does-a-hit-film-about-the-iraq-war-say-about-chinese-views-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156258","title":{"rendered":"What does a hit film about the Iraq war say about Chinese views of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA new film telling the story of the Iraq war through Chinese eyes marks the latest in a series of soft power initiatives designed to get Beijing\u2019s message across to the wider world.<br \/>\nAlthough Once Upon a Time in the Middle East does not explicitly state the name of the country in question, it is set in the 2000s and features an invasion by American troops.<br \/>\nThe film\u2019s central character, a Chinese chef named Xu Fu who is working off his debts at the time the war starts, turns his modest restaurant&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3364464\/what-does-hit-film-about-iraq-war-say-about-chinese-views-world?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 PostA new film telling the story of the Iraq war through Chinese eyes marks the latest in a series of soft power initiatives designed&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\/156258"}],"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=156258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}