{"id":16060,"date":"2020-03-19T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/china-positions-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:00:39","slug":"china-uses-soft-power-to-position-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16060","title":{"rendered":"China uses soft power to position itself as a leader in tackling coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As countries struggle to respond to the pandemic, China portrays itself as a global benefactor<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/14\/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news\">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>In the last few weeks, China has donated coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDChina\/status\/1240208320507469826\">testing kits to Cambodia<\/a>, sent planeloads of ventilators, masks and medics to Italy and France, pledged to help the Philippines, Spain and other countries, and deployed medics to Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has offered comforting words, telling the Spanish prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, that \u201csunshine comes after the storm\u201d, and adding that the two countries should step up cooperation and exchanges after the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/china-positions-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-the-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As countries struggle to respond to the pandemic, China portrays itself as a global benefactorCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn the last few weeks, China has donated coronavirus testing kits to Cambodia, sent planeloads of &#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":[50,1069,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/16060","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=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}