{"id":16571,"date":"2020-03-29T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/china-coronavirus-anti-foreigner-feeling-imported-cases"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:13:46","slug":"they-see-my-blue-eyes-then-jump-back-china-sees-a-new-wave-of-xenophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16571","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They see my blue eyes then jump back&#8217; &ndash; China sees a new wave of xenophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears rise that Beijing is stoking mistrust of foreigners as part of an attempt to rebuild a reputation tarnished by the coronavirus crisis<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, as Chinese health officials reported new \u201cimported\u201d coronavirus cases almost every day, foreigners living in the country have noticed a change. They have been turned away from restaurants, shops, gyms and hotels, subjected to further screening, yelled at by locals and avoided in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m walking past someone, then they see my blue eyes and jump a foot back,\u201d said Andrew Hoban, 33, who is originally from Ireland and lives in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/29\/china-coronavirus-anti-foreigner-feeling-imported-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears rise that Beijing is stoking mistrust of foreigners as part of an attempt to rebuild a reputation tarnished by the coronavirus crisisOver the past few weeks, as Chinese health officials reported new \u201cimported\u201d coronavirus cases almost every day, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1170,"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":[41,50,1069,914,362,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-race","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\/16571","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\/1170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16572,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions\/16572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}