{"id":338133,"date":"2020-02-19T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338133"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:33:49","slug":"coronavirus-slows-chinas-belt-and-road-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-slows-chinas-belt-and-road-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus slows China&#8217;s Belt and Road push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When President Xi Jinping made his first state visit this year to Myanmar and signed new infrastructure contracts, there was no indication of the obstacle about to trip up China&#8217;s plan for railways, ports and highways around the world: the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease, which has now killed more than 1,800 people, have idled much of the world&#8217;s second-largest economy and choked key elements of Xi&#8217;s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Xi Jinping made his first state visit this year to Myanmar and signed new infrastructure contracts, there was no indication of the obstacle about to trip up China&#8217;s plan for railways, ports and highways around the world: the coronavirus. Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease, which has now killed more than 1,800 people, have idled much of the world&#8217;s second-largest economy and choked key elements of Xi&#8217;s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}