{"id":14201,"date":"2020-02-11T14:58:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/coronavirus-outspoken-academic-blames-xi-jinping-for-catastrophe-sweeping-china"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:58:34","slug":"coronavirus-outspoken-academic-blames-xi-jinping-for-catastrophe-sweeping-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14201","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: outspoken academic blames Xi Jinping for &#8216;catastrophe&#8217; sweeping China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xu Zhangrun says culture of suppression and \u2018systemic impotence\u2019 have created the crisis that has killed more than 1,000 people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/coronavirus-expert-warns-infection-could-reach-60-of-worlds-population\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A prominent Chinese intellectual has become the first high-profile public figure to lay the blame for the coronavirus crisis at the feet of the country\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, saying the spread of the deadly virus has \u201crevealed the rotten core of Chinese governance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As the crisis expands across the country, Xu Zhangrun, a law professor from one of the country\u2019s top universities, lambasted the government under Xi in an essay titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/reporting-opinion\/viewpoint\/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear\">Viral Alarm, When Fury Overcomes Fear. <\/a> In it, Xu laid the blame for the current national crisis at the feet of Xi and a culture of suppression and \u201csystemic impotence\u201d that he has created. The virus has now killed more than 1,000 people inside China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/coronavirus-outspoken-academic-blames-xi-jinping-for-catastrophe-sweeping-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xu Zhangrun says culture of suppression and \u2018systemic impotence\u2019 have created the crisis that has killed more than 1,000 peopleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesA prominent Chinese intellectual has become the first high-profile public figure to lay the blame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[41,50,1069,914,299,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14202,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14201\/revisions\/14202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}