{"id":15955,"date":"2020-03-17T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/trump-calls-covid-19-the-chinese-virus-as-rift-with-coronavirus-beijing-escalates"},"modified":"2020-03-17T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:05:01","slug":"trump-sparks-anger-by-calling-coronavirus-the-chinese-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15955","title":{"rendered":"Trump sparks anger by calling coronavirus the &#8216;Chinese virus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry says US president should \u2018stop this despicable practice\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has referred to the coronavirus as \u201cthe Chinese virus\u201d, escalating a deepening US-China diplomatic spat over the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>After giving an address on Monday warning of a possible recession, the US president posted on Twitter: \u201cThe United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/trump-calls-covid-19-the-chinese-virus-as-rift-with-coronavirus-beijing-escalates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry says US president should \u2018stop this despicable practice\u2019 Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump has referred to the coronavirus as \u201cthe Chinese virus\u201d, escalating a deepening US-China diplomati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"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":[41,50,1069,914,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-us-news","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\/15955","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions\/15968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}