{"id":63775,"date":"2020-03-01T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63775"},"modified":"2020-03-01T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:21:23","slug":"us-postpones-asean-regional-summit-due-to-coronavirus-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63775","title":{"rendered":"US postpones ASEAN regional summit due to coronavirus: US official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Inter-01.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Inter-01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States has delayed a<br>regional ASEAN summit scheduled to take place in Las Vegas in March due to fears of the coronavirus, a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs the international community works together to defeat the novel<br>coronavirus, the United States, in consultation with ASEAN partners, has made the difficult decision to postpone the ASEAN leaders meeting,\u201d said the official on condition of not being named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders from the Association of South East Asian Nations had been due to<br>be hosted by President Donald Trump on March 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official said the United States \u201cvalues our relationships with the<br>nations of this critical region, and looks forward to future meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement came as health officials in California confirmed the<br>United States\u2019 second case believed to have been transmitted to a person who did not travel overseas or come in contact with anyone known to be ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has played down fears of a major outbreak in the United States, even as infections ricochet around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are now more daily cases being recorded outside China than inside<br>the country, where the virus first emerged in December, according to the<br>World Health Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 2,700 people have died in China and some 78,000 have been<br>infected. There have been more than 50 deaths and 3,600 cases in dozens of<br>other countries, raising fears of a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump had skipped an ASEAN summit and parallel East Asia Summit last year in Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He instead sent his national security advisor Robert O\u2019Brien, in the<br>lowest-level participation ever by the United States in the East Asia Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move came after years of US efforts to show that the United States is<br>committed to Asia in the face of a rising China. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States has delayed aregional ASEAN summit scheduled to take place in Las Vegas in March due to fears of the coronavirus, a senior administration official said. \u201cAs the international community works together to defeat the novelcoronavirus, the United States, in consultation with ASEAN partners, has made the difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":63779,"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\/63775"}],"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=63775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}