{"id":13704,"date":"2020-02-04T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/blame-xi-jinping-absence-coronavirus-frontline-china-crisis"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:58:02","slug":"taking-credit-avoiding-blame-xi-jinpings-absence-from-coronavirus-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"Taking credit, avoiding blame? Xi Jinping\u2019s absence from coronavirus frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese leader\u2019s unusual decision to command from a distance during the national crisis has aroused suspicion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/04\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-outbreak-death-toll-latest-news-update\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has been noticeably absent from public view as his government scrambles to fight the coronavirus outbreak that claimed more than 400 lives and infected more than 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent public appearance was on 28 January when he met the director general of the World Health Organization in Beijing and said he was \u201cpersonally commanding\u201d the response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/blame-xi-jinping-absence-coronavirus-frontline-china-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese leader\u2019s unusual decision to command from a distance during the national crisis has aroused suspicionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesThe Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has been noticeably absent from public view as his government scrambles to f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,1069,914,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/13704","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}