{"id":13479,"date":"2020-01-31T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/spate-of-anti-chinese-incidents-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-panic"},"modified":"2020-01-31T21:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T12:28:26","slug":"spate-of-anti-chinese-incidents-in-italy-as-two-cases-of-virus-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13479","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks of xenophobia in west as coronavirus spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents of hostility towards Asian people reported in Italy, France, Canada and UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/31\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-death-toll-who-global-health-emergency-latest-news\">Coronavirus latest: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese people in western countries where there have been cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have said they have been the target of racist abuse as paranoia mounts over the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, the European country with the highest annual number of Chinese tourists, the confirmation of two confirmed cases \u2013 a couple who arrived in Milan from Wuhan on 23 January on a lunar new year holiday \u2013 coincided with incidents of xenophobia and calls to avoid Chinese restaurants and shops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/spate-of-anti-chinese-incidents-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-panic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents of hostility towards Asian people reported in Italy, France, Canada and UKCoronavirus latest: live updatesChinese people in western countries where there have been cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have said they have been the target of racist a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"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":[50,1069,221,526,451,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-france","category-italy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","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\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}