{"id":50857,"date":"2022-12-04T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/04\/chinas-xi-jinping-unwilling-to-accept-western-covid-vaccines-says-us-intelligence-chief"},"modified":"2022-12-04T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:04:43","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-unwilling-to-accept-western-covid-vaccines-says-us-intelligence-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50857","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi Jinping \u2018unwilling\u2019 to accept western Covid vaccines says US intelligence chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi\u2019s stability<\/p>\n<p>Chinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, and while recent protests there are not a threat to Communist party rule, they could affect his personal standing, US director of national intelligence Avril Haines said.<\/p>\n<p>Although China\u2019s daily Covid cases are near all-time highs, some cities are taking steps to loosen testing and quarantine rules after Xi\u2019s zero-Covid policy triggered a sharp economic slowdown and public unrest opposing Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/04\/chinas-xi-jinping-unwilling-to-accept-western-covid-vaccines-says-us-intelligence-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi\u2019s stabilityChinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, &#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":[41,50,1066,914,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-us-news","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\/50857","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=50857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50857\/revisions\/50858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}