{"id":9783,"date":"2021-01-18T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118228\/china-takes-victory-lap-over-economic-recovery-critics-find"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:01:06","slug":"china-takes-victory-lap-over-economic-recovery-but-critics-find-cracks-in-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/china-takes-victory-lap-over-economic-recovery-but-critics-find-cracks-in-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"China takes victory lap over economic recovery, but critics find cracks in success story"},"content":{"rendered":"Just under a year ago, authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced a complete travel ban in a bid to contain a novel coronavirus outbreak that had, at that point, officially killed 17 people.The extreme lockdown that was rolled out across the country in the subsequent weeks was a harbinger of what the rest of 2020 would hold for many parts of the world.China\u2019s economy was brought to its knees: factories stopped producing, restaurants stopped serving, internal borders were shut\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118228\/china-takes-victory-lap-over-economic-recovery-critics-find\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just under a year ago, authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced a complete travel ban in a bid to contain a novel coronavirus outbreak that had, at that point, officially killed 17 people.The extreme lockdown that was rolled out acros&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":998,"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\/9783"}],"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\/998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10001,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}