{"id":10886,"date":"2021-09-30T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2021-10-11T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:25:21","slug":"proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Leah Chan and Austin Delsontro<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writers<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, September 13, hundreds of journalists surrounded the Pakistani Parliament House in Islamabad to protest a proposed media regulation law. The controversial law would allow the Pakistani government to create a new agency called Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA). The PMDA, which would be appointed by Pakistani government officials, would oversee national media, investigate complaints, and grant licenses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the PMDA, the Pakistani government believes they can curtail the spread of misinformation, with the stated goal of protecting the public. Due to the sweeping changes, the government would have to reform, or abolish entirely, current media laws to align with these new regulations. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/press-freedom_proposed-media-regulator-could-further-limit-pakistans-press\/6209274.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VOA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains that the government believes the PMDA remedies the current &#8220;fragmented&#8221; and &#8220;fractured&#8221; media regulatory environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/pakistani-journalists-rally-against-proposed-new-media-law\/2021\/09\/13\/d93d89c8-14f8-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, critics view the PMDA as a blatant attempt to tighten federal government control over the media. Critics claim the proposed law would give unchecked powers to a government-controlled assembly, including the ability to punish news organizations and journalists. Such punishments include heavy fines as well as up to three years in prison. These penalties would apply to anything violating the state-mandated code of conduct or any content deemed \u201cfake\u201d news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/23\/proposed-pakistan-authority-seeks-greater-control-media\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> points out how the proposed bill ignores the fact that print, electronic, and social media are separate entities, each with their own defined features. Pakistan\u2019s media includes roughly 150 television channels, with more than 300 radio stations, as well as close to 3,000 print publications, 1,000 cable operators, and various film production studios. Journalists believe control of all these types of media under a single authority would be impossible, fearing widespread corruption and abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the 2018 General Election, Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice) party (PTI) gained power. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/pakistan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reporters Without Borders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> emphasizes that Pakistani media freedom has diminished substantially since Khan took office. Attributing to this constriction of freedom is the exponential rise in attacks on journalists since Khan\u2019s government came to power. Nonetheless, the Pakistani government continues to pledge its support for free speech in accordance with their constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.na.gov.pk\/uploads\/documents\/1333523681_951.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pakistani Constitution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> limits censorship within the country, one provision allows for &#8220;reasonable restrictions in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of Pakistan or public order or morality.&#8221; This stipulation provides the basis for the controversial proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite being introduced in May, the government has yet to move the media regulation law through Parliament. Pakistani officials have faced public pushback from not only the owners of news organizations and journalist unions, but also opposing members of the National Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shehbaz Sharif, the leader of the opposition in the Pakistani Parliament,\u00a0 pledged his party\u2019s support in the journalists\u2019 struggle against the PMDA, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/go-to-pakistan\/pakistani-journalists-are-protesting-imran-khans-black-law-shehbaz-sharif-is-all-ears\/732692\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Print<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Sharif believes the PMDA \u201crobs the media of its independence and stifles free speech,\u201d and he condemns Khan\u2019s PTI-led government for attempting to \u201c[demolish] every institution that represents democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/asia\/pakistan-newspapers-society-says-no-to-new-media-law-call-it-unconstitutional-and-draconian20210812103243\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ANI News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0 the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the premier body of newspaper publishers in Pakistan, issued a letter on Sept. 8, declaring the law to be \u201cunconstitutional and draconian\u201d which goes against laws of \u201cfreedom and expression.\u201d APNS executive director Dr. Tanvir A Tahir asserts, \u201cThe concept is an attempt to tighten federal government hold over the media through one draconian authority ignoring the fact that print, digital and electronic media are separate entities each with their own defined features and respective regulatory laws.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The General Secretary of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the main body behind the demonstrations on Sept. 13, Nasir Zaidi, believes the PMDA to be an attempt to \u201cstifle the voice of the media.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite all the pushback, there exists a growing expectation that the PMDA will be instated soon, most likely through a presidential ordinance which the Pakistani Parliament will later pass into law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 13, hundreds of journalists surrounded the Pakistani Parliament House in Islamabad to protest a proposed media regulation law. The controversial law would allow the Pakistani government to create a new agency called Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5151,"featured_media":10853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,382],"tags":[473,563,918],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2021","category-international-news","tag-pakistan","tag-censorship","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Monday, September 13, hundreds of journalists surrounded the Pakistani Parliament House in Islamabad to protest a proposed media regulation law. The controversial law would allow the Pakistani government to create a new agency called Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leah Chan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Leah Chan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Leah Chan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e\"},\"headline\":\"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":647,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/Chan.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Pakistan\",\"censorship\",\"Middle East\"],\"articleSection\":[\"September 2021\",\"International News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/\",\"name\":\"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/Chan.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/Chan.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/Chan.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":667},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/30\\\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Diplomatic Envoy\",\"description\":\"Words Beyond Borders\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e\",\"name\":\"Leah Chan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Leah Chan\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.shu.edu\\\/thediplomaticenvoy\\\/author\\\/chanleah\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy","og_description":"On Monday, September 13, hundreds of journalists surrounded the Pakistani Parliament House in Islamabad to protest a proposed media regulation law. The controversial law would allow the Pakistani government to create a new agency called Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA).","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/","og_site_name":"The Diplomatic Envoy","article_published_time":"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":667,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Leah Chan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Leah Chan","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/"},"author":{"name":"Leah Chan","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e"},"headline":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan","datePublished":"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/"},"wordCount":647,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg","keywords":["Pakistan","censorship","Middle East"],"articleSection":["September 2021","International News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/","name":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan - The Diplomatic Envoy","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-30T12:00:29+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-11T15:25:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/files\/2021\/09\/Chan.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/proposed-law-to-stifle-media-sources-throughout-pakistan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Proposed Law to Stifle Media Sources Throughout Pakistan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/","name":"The Diplomatic Envoy","description":"Words Beyond Borders","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/#\/schema\/person\/ddb8a83b6930b9ec43cf08044b14a26e","name":"Leah Chan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a2e51d720127375364268bcf711f38467c4ca3b0933da71248347c421756e934?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Leah Chan"},"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/author\/chanleah\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}