{"id":17120,"date":"2020-04-13T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/13\/coronavirus-diplomacy-how-russia-china-and-eu-vie-to-win-over-serbia"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:00:02","slug":"coronavirus-diplomacy-how-russia-china-and-eu-vie-to-win-over-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17120","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus diplomacy: how Russia, China and EU vie to win over Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pandemic spreads rival powers deploy soft power and aid to advance foreign policy goals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/12\/coronavirus-live-pope-easter-lockdown-us-death-toll-uk-boris-johnson-donald-trump-\">Coronavirus: live global 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>First, the Chinese came to Belgrade, with planeloads of equipment and six medical experts to help coordinate national coronavirus policy. An emotional Serbian president kissed the Chinese flag in gratitude and slammed Europe for its lack of assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the Russians, who flew in less crucial but nevertheless welcome resources on military jets with much media fanfare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/13\/coronavirus-diplomacy-how-russia-china-and-eu-vie-to-win-over-serbia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pandemic spreads rival powers deploy soft power and aid to advance foreign policy goalsCoronavirus: live global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFirst, the Chinese came to Belgrade, with planeloads of equipment and six medical experts to help &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"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":[50,1069,221,530,319,914,4,419,1347,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-european-union","category-foreign-policy","category-infectious-diseases","category-politics","category-russia","category-serbia","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\/17120","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\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}