{"id":16600,"date":"2020-03-30T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/senior-who-adviser-appears-to-dodge-question-on-taiwans-covid-19-response"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:29:28","slug":"senior-who-adviser-appears-to-dodge-question-on-taiwans-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16600","title":{"rendered":"Senior WHO adviser appears to dodge question on Taiwan&#8217;s Covid-19 response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Bruce Aylward, who visited Wuhan in February, appeared to hang up or be cut off when pressed on Taipei\u2019s record <\/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>A senior advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO) appeared to hang up on a journalist who asked about Taiwan\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and then did not answer further questions because they had \u201calready talked about China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid continued criticism of the WHO\u2019s approach towards both Taiwan and China. Taiwan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2019\/05\/taiwan-picks-up-international-support-after-being-barred-from-world-health-assembly\/\">excluded from participating in the World Health Assembly<\/a> after heavy lobbying from China, which considers Taiwan part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/senior-who-adviser-appears-to-dodge-question-on-taiwans-covid-19-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Bruce Aylward, who visited Wuhan in February, appeared to hang up or be cut off when pressed on Taipei\u2019s record Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA senior advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO) appeared to han&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,1069,346,299,74,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-science","category-taiwan","category-world-health-organization","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\/16600","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/16601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}