{"id":199535,"date":"2021-06-11T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=204529"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:50:35","slug":"no-matter-whats-happening-in-china-the-west-is-likely-to-be-surprised-by-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/11\/no-matter-whats-happening-in-china-the-west-is-likely-to-be-surprised-by-it\/","title":{"rendered":"No Matter What\u2019s Happening in China, the West is Likely to be Surprised by It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of China caught the West by surprise. So has China\u2019s decline. Sure, China is having a good pandemic. Life since the initial COVID outbreak in Wuhan is pretty much back to normal. Few restrictions are in place in Beijing or Shanghai. But globally? China is the new bogeyman. In corporate speak its brand  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/11\/no-matter-whats-happening-in-china-the-west-is-likely-to-be-surprised-by-it\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/11\/no-matter-whats-happening-in-china-the-west-is-likely-to-be-surprised-by-it\/\">No Matter What&#8217;s Happening in China, the West is Likely to be Surprised by It<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/11\/no-matter-whats-happening-in-china-the-west-is-likely-to-be-surprised-by-it\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of China caught the West by surprise. So has China\u2019s decline. Sure, China is having a good pandemic. Life since the initial COVID outbreak in Wuhan is pretty much back to normal. Few restrictions are in place in Beijing or Shanghai. But global&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199535"}],"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\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199773,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199535\/revisions\/199773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}