{"id":10556,"date":"2021-01-19T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118349\/why-suga-so-insistent-tokyo-olympics-its-partly-threat-losing"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:00:19","slug":"why-is-suga-so-insistent-on-the-tokyo-olympics-its-partly-the-threat-of-losing-face-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/why-is-suga-so-insistent-on-the-tokyo-olympics-its-partly-the-threat-of-losing-face-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Suga so insistent on the Tokyo Olympics? It\u2019s partly the threat of losing face to China"},"content":{"rendered":"In the Diet on Monday, delivering his first policy speech of the year, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was adamant about the two issues that have come to overshadow his administration \u2013 Japan would overcome Covid-19 \u201cas soon as possible\u201d, he insisted, and the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games and Paralympics would go ahead as scheduled.\r\rBoth tasks appear to be monumental in scale, and Suga has a lot riding on meeting those promises. If he gets them right, he becomes the leader who pulled off the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118349\/why-suga-so-insistent-tokyo-olympics-its-partly-threat-losing\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Diet on Monday, delivering his first policy speech of the year, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was adamant about the two issues that have come to overshadow his administration \u2013 Japan would overcome Covid-19 \u201cas soon as possible\u201d, he insisted, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10557,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}