{"id":15634,"date":"2020-03-10T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/xi-jinping-visits-wuhan-for-first-time-since-coronavirus-outbreak-began"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T05:01:21","slug":"xi-jinping-visits-wuhan-for-first-time-since-coronavirus-outbreak-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15634","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping visits Wuhan for first time since coronavirus outbreak began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader\u2019s arrival at the centre of the epidemic signals that Beijing believes the tide has turned in its fight against Covid-19<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/10\/coronavirus-update-latest-italy-shutdown-lockdown-who-pandemic-outbreak-quarantine-uk-cases-usa-america-australia-live-news-updates\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, has visited Wuhan for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began, a signal that the nation\u2019s leadership believes its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/how-did-china-get-grips-with-coronavirus-outbreak\">fight against the epidemic<\/a> has been largely won.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official state news agency Xinhua, Xi landed in Wuhan on Tuesday where he planned to \u201cvisit and express his regards\u201d to frontline medical workers, military, community staff, grassroots party officials, volunteers, patients and residents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/xi-jinping-visits-wuhan-for-first-time-since-coronavirus-outbreak-began\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader\u2019s arrival at the centre of the epidemic signals that Beijing believes the tide has turned in its fight against Covid-19Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesChina\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, has visited Wuhan for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak be&#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":[41,50,1069,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/15634","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=15634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15635,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions\/15635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}