{"id":31565,"date":"2021-04-29T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/border-dispute-casts-shadow-over-chinas-offers-of-covid-help-for-india"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:00:19","slug":"border-dispute-casts-shadow-over-chinas-offers-of-covid-help-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31565","title":{"rendered":"Border dispute casts shadow over China\u2019s offers of Covid help for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: some in China see India\u2019s crisis as a diplomatic opportunity but tensions from last summer remain high<\/p>\n<p>As coronavirus rages across India, its neighbour China has made repeated offers of help. Some are asking whether this could be an occasion to ease the tense relations between the world\u2019s two most populous countries following last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/explainer-what-is-the-deadly-india-china-border-dispute-about\">border skirmishes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said this week that Beijing was \u201cready to provide support and assistance to the Indian people at any time according to the needs of India\u201d. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Delhi said it would \u201cencourage and instruct Chinese companies to actively cooperate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/29\/border-dispute-casts-shadow-over-chinas-offers-of-covid-help-for-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: some in China see India\u2019s crisis as a diplomatic opportunity but tensions from last summer remain highAs coronavirus rages across India, its neighbour China has made repeated offers of help. Some are asking whether this could be an occasion t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/31565","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions\/31566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}