{"id":36393,"date":"2020-03-22T03:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36393"},"modified":"2020-03-22T03:09:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T03:09:04","slug":"china-uses-soft-power-to-position-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36393","title":{"rendered":"China uses soft power to position itself as a leader in tackling coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As countries struggle to respond to the pandemic, China shows itself as a world benefactor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/14\/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus- latest updates<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks, China has donated coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDChina\/status\/1240208320507469826\">testing kits to Cambodia<\/a>, transmitted planeloads of ventilators, disguises and medics to Italy and France, pledged to help the Philippines, Spain and other countries, and deployed medics to Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has offered comforting words, telling the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, that &ldquo;sunshine comes after the storm&rdquo;, and adding that the two countries should step up cooperation and exchanges after the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/china-positions-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-the-coronavirus\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/china-positions-itself-as-a-leader-in-tackling-the-coronavirus\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As countries struggle to respond to the pandemic, China shows itself as a world benefactor Coronavirus- latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage In the last few weeks, China has donated coronavirus testing kits to Cambodia, transmitted planeloads of ventilators, disguises and medics to Italy and France, pledged to help the Philippines, Spain and other countries, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[758,15610],"class_list":["post-36393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/40001584846545.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}