{"id":103383,"date":"2020-03-06T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/chinas-coronavirus-recovery-is-all-fake-whistleblowers-and-residents-claim"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:02:26","slug":"chinas-coronavirus-recovery-is-all-fake-whistleblowers-and-residents-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/chinas-coronavirus-recovery-is-all-fake-whistleblowers-and-residents-claim","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s coronavirus recovery is \u2018all fake,\u2019 whistleblowers and residents claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-coronavirus-recovery-is-all-fake-whistleblowers-and-residents-claim.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s claims of how it\u2019s handling coronavirus recovery should be taken with more than a few grains of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Even before COVID-19 became a global crisis, Chinese leaders had been criticized for their handling of the situation and lack of transparency about the disease\u2019s progression. Things now look like they\u2019re on the upswing, and businesses even appear to be headed back to work \u2014 but whistleblowers and local officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caixinglobal.com\/2020-03-04\/lights-are-on-but-no-ones-working-how-local-governments-are-faking-coronavirus-recovery-101524058.html\" target=\"_blank\">tell <em>Caixan<\/em><\/a> that\u2019s just a carefully crafted ruse.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has spent much of the outbreak pushing districts to carry on business as usual, with some local governments subsidizing electricity costs and even installing mandatory productivity quotas. Zhejiang, an province east of the epicenter city of Wuhan, claimed as of Feb. 24 it had restored 98.6 percent of its pre-coronavirus work capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s claims of how it\u2019s handling coronavirus recovery should be taken with more than a few grains of salt. Even before COVID-19 became a global crisis, Chinese leaders had been criticized for their handling of the situation and lack of transparency about the disease\u2019s progression. Things now look like they\u2019re on the upswing, and businesses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}