{"id":17647,"date":"2020-04-28T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/australia-called-gum-stuck-to-chinas-shoe-by-state-media-in-coronavirus-investigation-stoush"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:00:57","slug":"australia-called-gum-stuck-to-chinas-shoe-by-state-media-in-coronavirus-investigation-stoush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17647","title":{"rendered":"Australia called &#8216;gum stuck to China&#8217;s shoe&#8217; by state media in coronavirus investigation stoush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hu Xijin, editor of Global Times, responds to calls for inquiry into source of Covid-19<\/p>\n<ul>\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 to get coronavirus updates delivered to your email every weekday evening<\/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>Australia has been described as \u201cgum stuck to the bottom of China\u2019s shoe,\u201d by a Chinese state media editor as Beijing criticised calls for an inquiry into the coronavirus origin as \u201cpolitical manoeuvring,\u201d further straining ties. <\/p>\n<p>Australia has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Beijing as it calls for an investigation into the origins and spread of the virus, which emerged in China late last year and has now killed more than 200,000 people around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/australia-called-gum-stuck-to-chinas-shoe-by-state-media-in-coronavirus-investigation-stoush\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hu Xijin, editor of Global Times, responds to calls for inquiry into source of Covid-19Sign up to get coronavirus updates delivered to your email every weekday eveningDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsAustralia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,43,536,324,50,1069,914,512,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","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\/17647","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions\/17648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}