{"id":53635,"date":"2023-03-21T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/president-joe-biden-orders-release-of-us-intelligence-on-potential-links-between-covid-and-wuhan-lab"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:18:28","slug":"biden-orders-release-of-intelligence-on-potential-links-between-covid-and-wuhan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53635","title":{"rendered":"Biden orders release of intelligence on potential links between Covid and Wuhan lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move poses political risk for US president, who has a difficult relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping<\/p>\n<p>A bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been signed into law by US president Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get to the bottom of Covid-19\u2019s origins \u2026 including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,\u201d Biden said in a statement. \u201cIn implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/president-joe-biden-orders-release-of-us-intelligence-on-potential-links-between-covid-and-wuhan-lab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move poses political risk for US president, who has a difficult relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi JinpingA bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory&#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":[41,50,1066,939,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-joe-biden","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53635","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=53635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53635\/revisions\/53636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}