{"id":14645,"date":"2020-02-19T04:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-coronavirus-who-diplomatic-challenge"},"modified":"2020-02-19T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:36:18","slug":"chinas-handling-of-coronavirus-is-a-diplomatic-challenge-for-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14645","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s handling of coronavirus is a diplomatic challenge for WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s draconian measures to contain outbreak have delayed global transmission<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization is having to perform a diplomatic balancing act over the new coronavirus outbreak, caught between China \u2013 whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/18\/senior-wuhan-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-as-authorities-start-to-round-up-patients\">draconian measures to contain the disease<\/a> have delayed transmission to the rest of the world \u2013and China\u2019s critics, who say its behaviour is typical of its disregard for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>At every press briefing, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has defended China\u2019s handling of the epidemic in the face of critical questions, very often from US journalists. At the end of January, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/30\/who-declares-coronavirus-a-global-health-emergency\">Tedros declared a public health emergency of international concern<\/a> \u2013 having put it off a week earlier under what was assumed to be pressure from Beijing \u2013 he praised China for protecting the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-coronavirus-who-diplomatic-challenge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s draconian measures to contain outbreak have delayed global transmissionThe World Health Organization is having to perform a diplomatic balancing act over the new coronavirus outbreak, caught between China \u2013 whose draconian measures to contain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"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":[41,50,1069,346,914,299,79,74,84,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-society","category-taiwan","category-united-nations","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645","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\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14646,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645\/revisions\/14646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}