{"id":10791,"date":"2021-01-20T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/china-personalities\/article\/3118494\/backlash-chinese-actress-zheng-shuangs"},"modified":"2021-01-20T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:45:11","slug":"backlash-to-chinese-actress-zheng-shuangs-surrogacy-scandal-definitely-not-innocent-authorities-say-while-brands-distance-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/backlash-to-chinese-actress-zheng-shuangs-surrogacy-scandal-definitely-not-innocent-authorities-say-while-brands-distance-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash to Chinese actress Zheng Shuang\u2019s surrogacy scandal: \u2018definitely not innocent\u2019, authorities say, while brands distance themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"The backlash continues full throttle.Two days after popular Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was accused by her former partner, producer Zhang Heng, of abandoning their two children born to US-based surrogate mothers, Chinese authorities and a host of commercial brands linked to Zheng have reacted to the controversy.Zheng\u2019s surrogacy used a legal loophole and was \u201cdefinitely not innocent\u201d, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China said on Wednesday\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/china-personalities\/article\/3118494\/backlash-chinese-actress-zheng-shuangs\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backlash continues full throttle.Two days after popular Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was accused by her former partner, producer Zhang Heng, of abandoning their two children born to US-based surrogate mothers, Chinese authorities and a host of comm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10792,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}