{"id":133225,"date":"2025-07-22T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133225"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:00:08","slug":"chinese-lead-poisoning-scandal-raises-fresh-questions-over-local-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133225","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lead poisoning scandal raises fresh questions over local governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s worst food safety scandal in almost two decades, in which hundreds of children suffered lead poisoning, has prompted fresh questions about the quality of local governance.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, the authorities in the northwestern province of Gansu said 10 local officials were under investigation over the incident in the city of Tianshui.<br \/>\nOne political scientist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the slow response to the incident showed how local officials \u201ctry to avoid taking&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3319051\/chinese-kindergarten-lead-poisoning-scandal-raises-fresh-questions-over-local-governance?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 PostChina\u2019s worst food safety scandal in almost two decades, in which hundreds of children suffered lead poisoning, has prompted fresh questions about the quality&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\/133225"}],"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=133225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}