{"id":13498,"date":"2020-01-31T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/help-or-hindrance-how-chinese-politics-affected-coronavirus-response"},"modified":"2020-01-31T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T12:21:42","slug":"help-or-hindrance-how-chinese-politics-affected-coronavirus-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13498","title":{"rendered":"Help or hindrance? How Chinese politics affected coronavirus response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus fester<\/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 outbreak \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Wuhan\u2019s mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/video\/2020\/jan\/27\/wuhan-mayor-says-citys-governance-not-good-enough-as-coronavirus-spreads-video\">took to live national television<\/a> to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came primed for a rare \u2013 and very prolonged \u2013 display of self criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Over nearly an hour Zhou Xianwang said his work \u201cwasn\u2019t performed well enough\u201d, that the city government had failed to provide timely information or act on what it knew, and offered his own resignation, although it is yet to be accepted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/help-or-hindrance-how-chinese-politics-affected-coronavirus-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus festerCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 latest updatesWhen Wuhan\u2019s mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came pri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,1069,914,1037,299,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-sars","category-science","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\/13498","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13499,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}