{"id":17980,"date":"2020-05-08T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/08\/us-senators-propose-renaming-street-outside-chinese-embassy-after-wuhan-whistleblower"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T01:51:21","slug":"us-senators-propose-renaming-street-outside-chinese-embassy-after-wuhan-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17980","title":{"rendered":"US senators propose renaming street outside Chinese embassy after Wuhan whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington street would be rechristened \u2018Li Wenliang Plaza\u2019 in honour of medic punished for sounding alarm over dangers of coronavirus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-trump-cdc-guidance-russia-germany-france-brazil-who-190000-could-die-in-africa\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US lawmakers have proposed renaming the street in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington after the late Wuhan doctor punished for warning about the spread of coronavirus, a step sure to outrage Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would rechristen the section of the Washington street in front of the embassy \u201cLi Wenliang Plaza\u201d, instead of the innocuous current name of International Place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/08\/us-senators-propose-renaming-street-outside-chinese-embassy-after-wuhan-whistleblower\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington street would be rechristened \u2018Li Wenliang Plaza\u2019 in honour of medic punished for sounding alarm over dangers of coronavirusCoronavirus latest updatesUS lawmakers have proposed renaming the street in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,1069,47,631,778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-washington-dc"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17981,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions\/17981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}