{"id":9184,"date":"2021-01-16T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118034\/china-offers-free-covid-19-vaccines-loans-philippines-wang-yi"},"modified":"2021-01-16T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T15:00:11","slug":"china-offers-free-covid-19-vaccines-loans-to-philippines-as-wang-yi-wraps-up-southeast-asia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/china-offers-free-covid-19-vaccines-loans-to-philippines-as-wang-yi-wraps-up-southeast-asia-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"China offers free Covid-19 vaccines, loans to Philippines as Wang Yi wraps up Southeast Asia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi came to Manila bearing gifts, promising half a million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, US$1.34 billion in loan pledges for infrastructure projects and US$77 million (500 million yuan) in grants, underlining Beijing\u2019s support for its \u201cclosest neighbour\u201d in the twilight of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s administration and before Joe Biden becomes US president next week.\u201cAs a friend of the Philippines and your closest neighbour, we will firmly stand with the people of the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118034\/china-offers-free-covid-19-vaccines-loans-philippines-wang-yi\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi came to Manila bearing gifts, promising half a million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, US$1.34 billion in loan pledges for infrastructure projects and US$77 million (500 million yuan) in grants, underlining Beijing\u2019s suppor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"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\/9184"}],"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\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9185,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}