{"id":32352,"date":"2021-05-22T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T03:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/taiwan-accuses-china-of-spreading-fake-news-about-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-05-22T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T03:37:52","slug":"taiwan-accuses-china-of-spreading-fake-news-about-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32352","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan accuses China of spreading fake news about Covid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is using \u2018cognitive warfare\u2019 to undermine trust in the island\u2019s government, says official<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwanese official has accused China of spreading fake news about the Covid-19 outbreak on the island, saying this was why the government was publicising and refuting instances of false information circulating online.<\/p>\n<p>After months of keeping the pandemic under control, Taiwan is dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/taiwan-raises-covid-alert-level-amid-rise-in-infections\">a surge in domestic infections<\/a>, and the whole island is under a heightened state of alert with people asked to stay at home and many venues shut.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/22\/taiwan-accuses-china-of-spreading-fake-news-about-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is using \u2018cognitive warfare\u2019 to undermine trust in the island\u2019s government, says officialA Taiwanese official has accused China of spreading fake news about the Covid-19 outbreak on the island, saying this was why the government was publicising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352\/revisions\/32353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}