{"id":17687,"date":"2020-04-29T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/chewing-gum-stuck-on-the-sole-of-our-shoes-the-china-australia-war-of-words-timeline"},"modified":"2020-04-29T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:10:53","slug":"chewing-gum-stuck-on-the-sole-of-our-shoes-the-china-australia-war-of-words-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17687","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chewing gum stuck on the sole of our shoes&#8217;: the China-Australia war of words &ndash; timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for an investigation into the causes of coronavirus have enraged Beijing. Here\u2019s how the spat unfolded<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/australia-defends-plan-to-investigate-china-over-covid-19-outbreak-as-row-deepens\">China bristles at Australia\u2019s call for investigation into coronavirus origin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/australia-defends-plan-to-investigate-china-over-covid-19-outbreak-as-row-deepens\">war of words has erupted between Australia and China<\/a> after Australia backed calls for an international investigation into the causes of the Covid-19 outbreak. Here we look at how the verbal stoush escalated:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/chewing-gum-stuck-on-the-sole-of-our-shoes-the-china-australia-war-of-words-timeline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for an investigation into the causes of coronavirus have enraged Beijing. Here\u2019s how the spat unfolded\u2022 China bristles at Australia\u2019s call for investigation into coronavirus originAn extraordinary war of words has erupted between Australia and Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,43,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/17687","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}