{"id":16781,"date":"2020-04-02T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/apr\/02\/on-the-light-side-trump-casts-doubt-on-chinas-coronavirus-figures"},"modified":"2020-04-02T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:42:16","slug":"on-the-light-side-trump-casts-doubt-on-chinas-coronavirus-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16781","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;On the light side&#8217;: Trump casts doubt on China&#8217;s coronavirus figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers accuse Beijing of under-reporting scale of outbreak<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/02\/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-latest-updates\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has said China\u2019s reported death toll and infections from the coronavirus seem \u201ca little bit on the light side\u201d, as US lawmakers and reportedly members of the intelligence community accused Beijing of intentionally under-reporting the scale of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side \u2013 and I am being nice when I say that \u2013 relative to what we witnessed and what was reported,\u201d the US president said at a daily briefing on Wednesday, referring to China\u2019s officially reported figures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/apr\/02\/on-the-light-side-trump-casts-doubt-on-chinas-coronavirus-figures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers accuse Beijing of under-reporting scale of outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesDonald Trump has said China\u2019s reported death toll and infections from the coronavirus seem \u201ca little bit on the light side\u201d, as US lawmakers and reportedly memb&#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":[41,50,1069,554,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","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=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16782,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}