{"id":132426,"date":"2025-07-08T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132426"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:40:39","slug":"wuhan-mayor-who-defended-citys-slow-response-to-covid-faces-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132426","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan mayor who defended city\u2019s slow response to Covid faces corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe former mayor of Wuhan, whose handling of the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak was widely criticised, has been placed under investigation for corruption.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country\u2019s top anti-corruption body, said Zhou Xianwang was being investigated for suspected \u201cserious violations of discipline and law\u201d \u2013 the standard euphemism for corruption.<br \/>\nZhou was best known for defending the city authorities\u2019 widely criticised response to the early&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3317377\/wuhan-mayor-best-known-defending-citys-slow-response-covid-faces-corruption-probe?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe former mayor of Wuhan, whose handling of the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak was widely criticised, has been placed under investigation for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}