{"id":17702,"date":"2020-04-29T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/australia-defends-plan-to-investigate-china-over-covid-19-outbreak-as-row-deepens"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:37:41","slug":"china-bristles-at-australias-call-for-investigation-into-coronavirus-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17702","title":{"rendered":"China bristles at Australia&#8217;s call for investigation into coronavirus origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing warns relationship could be damaged \u2018beyond repair\u2019 after Australian prime minister Scott Morrison cites \u2018extraordinary\u2019 impact of Covid-19<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><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\">\u2018Chewing gum stuck on the sole of our shoes\u2019: the China-Australia war of words \u2013 timeline<\/a><\/li>\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>The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has defied China and defended the \u201centirely reasonable and sensible\u201d call for an investigation into the origins of coronavirus, as the international political fallout over the pandemic deepened.<\/p>\n<p>China has been pushing back against criticism from other governments about how it handled the outbreak of Covid-19, which is believed to have started in Wuhan and which has now infected 3 million people worldwide and killed 200,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/australia-defends-plan-to-investigate-china-over-covid-19-outbreak-as-row-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing warns relationship could be damaged \u2018beyond repair\u2019 after Australian prime minister Scott Morrison cites \u2018extraordinary\u2019 impact of Covid-19\u2018Chewing gum stuck on the sole of our shoes\u2019: the China-Australia war of words \u2013 timelineCoronavirus \u2013 la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1265,"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":[41,43,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/17702","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\/1265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}