{"id":156504,"date":"2026-08-24T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156504"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:30:06","slug":"forcing-women-to-drink-at-business-dinners-has-no-place-in-modern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156504","title":{"rendered":"Forcing women to drink at business dinners has no place in modern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostReports of a female employee allegedly being assaulted at a drinking party in Hangzhou brought back a version of myself from more than a decade ago. Back then, I was one of those young women routinely invited to business dinners.<br \/>\nSeating followed an unwritten rule, with the most powerful person taking the seat of honour, flanked by two young women. Everyone knew what we were there to do: keep the conversation lively, entertain the guests and, above all, keep raising our glasses.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve always been&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3364802\/forcing-women-drink-business-dinners-has-no-place-modern-china?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 PostReports of a female employee allegedly being assaulted at a drinking party in Hangzhou brought back a version of myself from more than a&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\/156504"}],"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=156504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}