{"id":13212,"date":"2020-01-24T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/chinese-state-media-downplays-coronavirus-as-xi-strikes-positive-tone"},"modified":"2020-01-24T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T04:36:10","slug":"chinese-state-media-downplays-coronavirus-as-xi-strikes-positive-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13212","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state media downplays coronavirus as Xi strikes positive tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spread of illness reported down-bulletin on state TV but private outlets allowed more freedom to cover outbreak<\/p>\n<p>It has been splashed all over the front pages of newspapers around the world for days. But the outbreak of coronavirus, which has left at least 25 dead and infected more than 800, has been largely missing from China\u2019s major state-run media.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s front page of the People\u2019s Daily, the Chinese Communist party\u2019s flagship newspaper, displayed only warm wishes for lunar new year\u2019s eve from the president, Xi Jinping, as he attended a spring festival gala at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/chinese-state-media-downplays-coronavirus-as-xi-strikes-positive-tone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spread of illness reported down-bulletin on state TV but private outlets allowed more freedom to cover outbreakIt has been splashed all over the front pages of newspapers around the world for days. But the outbreak of coronavirus, which has left at lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}