{"id":17190,"date":"2020-04-15T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/wagga-wagga-severs-ties-with-chinese-sister-city-over-death-and-destruction-from-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:38:30","slug":"wagga-wagga-severs-ties-with-chinese-sister-city-over-death-and-destruction-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17190","title":{"rendered":"Wagga Wagga severs ties with Chinese sister city over &#8216;death and destruction&#8217; from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Nationals MP denounces council vote in Australian city as \u2018nothing short of appalling\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2020\/apr\/15\/australia-coronavirus-live-news-economy-politics-nsw-victoria-queensland-latest-updates\">Follow the Australian coronavirus live blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The city of Wagga Wagga has moved to formally sever ties with its sister cities in China, based on a report that claims the country\u2019s regime is responsible for \u201cdeath and destruction\u201d from the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The council vote was pushed through with the support of three conservative councillors, while others, including the city\u2019s mayor Greg Conkey, were absent or unable to vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/wagga-wagga-severs-ties-with-chinese-sister-city-over-death-and-destruction-from-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Nationals MP denounces council vote in Australian city as \u2018nothing short of appalling\u2019Follow the Australian coronavirus live blogSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus emailDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"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":[41,43,645,50,1069,914,619,816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-national-party","category-new-south-wales"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190","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\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17191,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17190\/revisions\/17191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}