{"id":16569,"date":"2020-03-29T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/us-awol-from-world-stage-as-china-tries-on-global-leadership-for-size"},"modified":"2020-03-29T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T07:00:47","slug":"us-awol-from-world-stage-as-china-tries-on-global-leadership-for-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16569","title":{"rendered":"US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pompeo labelling the virus \u2018Chinese\u2019 has added to lack of international cooperation<\/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>When the UN security council and the G7 group sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts stumbled on the US insistence on describing the threat as distinctively Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>There are other reasons for the lack of collaboration in the face of a global crisis, but the focus on labelling the virus Chinese and blaming China pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world\u2019s most powerful nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/us-awol-from-world-stage-as-china-tries-on-global-leadership-for-size\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pompeo labelling the virus \u2018Chinese\u2019 has added to lack of international cooperationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the UN security council and the G7 group sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pande&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[41,50,1069,637,914,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-g7","category-infectious-diseases","category-united-nations","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\/16569","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}