{"id":15679,"date":"2020-03-11T02:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/republicans-face-backlash-racist-labeling-coronavirus-china-wuhan"},"modified":"2020-03-11T02:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:02:53","slug":"republicans-face-backlash-over-racist-labeling-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15679","title":{"rendered":"Republicans face backlash over racist labeling of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China says US politicians are stigmatizing the country with \u2018despicable\u2019 practice of calling the virus \u2018Wuhan coronavirus\u2019 and \u2018China coronavirus\u2019<\/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\">Follow live updates on the coronavirus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senior Republican figures are facing backlash over an apparent effort to label Covid-19 as \u201cChinese coronavirus\u201d \u2013 as China accused some US politicians of \u201cdisrespecting science\u201d<strong> <\/strong>in order to \u201cstigmatize\u201d the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mike-pompeo\">Mike Pompeo<\/a>, the secretary of state, are among those to add a geographical marker to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> in recent days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/10\/republicans-face-backlash-racist-labeling-coronavirus-china-wuhan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says US politicians are stigmatizing the country with \u2018despicable\u2019 practice of calling the virus \u2018Wuhan coronavirus\u2019 and \u2018China coronavirus\u2019Follow live updates on the coronavirusSenior Republican figures are facing backlash over an apparent effor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1114,"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":[50,1069,1150,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-republicans","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679","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\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions\/15680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}