{"id":17158,"date":"2021-08-05T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17158"},"modified":"2021-08-05T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:00:22","slug":"chinas-crackdown-on-gaming-state-newspaper-calls-for-higher-taxes-but-also-highlights-soft-power-gains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17158","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s crackdown on gaming: state newspaper calls for higher taxes but also highlights soft power gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s gaming industry needs to be taxed just like any other traditional industry, according to an op-ed from one of the country\u2019s influential state newspapers, joining the growing debate on how video games should be viewed and regulated.\u201cThe gaming industry has long enjoyed favourable tax policies because it was considered part of the software service industry, but this has drawn widespread criticism,\u201d the opinion piece, published by the Securities Times, a paper affiliated with Communist\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3143886\/chinas-crackdown-gaming-state-newspaper-calls-higher-taxes-also?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s gaming industry needs to be taxed just like any other traditional industry, according to an op-ed from one of the country\u2019s influential state&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17159,"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\/17158"}],"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=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}