{"id":17061,"date":"2013-07-10T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:08:36","slug":"beijing-to-bid-for-world-debating-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20130710\/beijing-to-bid-for-world-debating-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing to Bid for World Debating Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tor_des_Himmlischen_Friedens_Peking-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17063 alignleft\" alt=\"Peking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tor_des_Himmlischen_Friedens_Peking-11-400x300.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tor_des_Himmlischen_Friedens_Peking-11-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tor_des_Himmlischen_Friedens_Peking-11.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/idebate.org\/news-articles\/beijing-bid-world-debating-championships\">Colm Flynn<\/a>, we receiced the following information:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While details are a little limited at this early stage a group of Chinese universities\u00a0have come together to bid to host the 2016 World Universities Debating Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Beijing University Debate Association are the host organisation and the championships would be held in Tsinghua University.\u00a0 They are\u00a0supported by:<\/p>\n<p>Beijing Foreign Studies University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beijing Language and Culture University<\/li>\n<li>China Agricultural University<\/li>\n<li>Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics<\/li>\n<li>China University of Petroleum &#8211; Beijing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Convenor of the tournament would be former BUDA President Chanel Chan Choyi.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing are the first to announce their intention to bid for WUDC 2016 and there may be more bids.\u00a0 The hosts for the 2016 tournament will be decided by Worlds Council at a meeting on New Year&#8217;s day in Chennai, India where 2014 WUDC will be held.\u00a0 Malaysia will host\u00a0WUDC in 2015.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Colm Flynn, we receiced the following information: &#8220;While details are a little limited at this early stage a group of Chinese universities\u00a0have come together to bid to host the 2016 World Universities Debating Championships. The Beijing University Debate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}