{"id":61255,"date":"2020-02-08T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61255"},"modified":"2020-02-08T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:20:23","slug":"us-offers-us100-million-to-china-others-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61255","title":{"rendered":"US offers US$100 million to China, others to fight coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_img\/public\/image\/2020\/02\/08\/nz_coronavirus_080238.jpg?itok=MWFvU-Bg\" alt=\"nz_coronavirus_080238.jpg\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States on Friday offered up to US$100 million to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This commitment &#8211;\u00a0along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector &#8211;\u00a0demonstrates strong US leadership in response to the outbreak,&#8221; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We encourage the rest of the world to match our commitment. Working together, we can have a profound impact to contain this growing threat,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pompeo, who has frequently criticised China on issues from human rights to its overseas infrastructure spending, said the United States would provide the assistance either directly or through multilateral organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the spending would come out of unspecified funds that have already been allocated within the US government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aid pledge comes after Beijing criticised the US response to the health crisis, saying that Washington has been spreading &#8220;panic&#8221; by banning the entry of foreign nationals who travelled to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But President Donald Trump on Friday praised China&#8217;s response as &#8220;very professional&#8221; after he spoke by telephone with his counterpart Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pompeo said that the United States has donated close to 17.8 tonnes of medical supplies to China including masks, gowns, gauze and respirators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 34,000 people in two dozen countries have been infected, with more than 720\u00a0killed, since the virus emerged late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, likely from a market that sold exotic animals for consumption. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States on Friday offered up to US$100 million to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus. &#8220;This commitment &#8211;\u00a0along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector &#8211;\u00a0demonstrates strong US leadership in response to the outbreak,&#8221; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}