{"id":17630,"date":"2020-04-28T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/trump-says-china-could-have-stopped-covid-19-and-suggests-us-will-seek-damages"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:52:54","slug":"trump-says-china-could-have-stopped-covid-19-and-suggests-us-will-seek-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17630","title":{"rendered":"Trump says China could have stopped Covid-19 and suggests US will seek damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says US is conducting \u2018serious investigations\u2019 into Beijing\u2019s handling of coronavirus<\/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>Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on China, saying his administration was conducting \u201cserious investigations\u201d into Beijing\u2019s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and suggesting he would seek damages for the US.<\/p>\n<p>The US president had stopped giving press briefings after his advisers reportedly warned him that his marathon news conferences, including his widely-ridiculed comments about disinfectant as a possible treatment for Covid-19 <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>were hurting his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/trump-says-china-could-have-stopped-covid-19-and-suggests-us-will-seek-damages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says US is conducting \u2018serious investigations\u2019 into Beijing\u2019s handling of coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump has renewed his attacks on China, saying his administration was conducting \u201cserious &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"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":[41,50,1069,415,914,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-us-news","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\/17630","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\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17646,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions\/17646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}