{"id":152569,"date":"2026-06-06T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152569"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:30:06","slug":"norman-bethunes-story-still-holds-lessons-for-china-canada-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152569","title":{"rendered":"Norman Bethune\u2019s story still holds lessons for China-Canada relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostI grew up in a classroom where the name Norman Bethune was invoked with reverence. Like every schoolchild in China, I could recite from memory Chairman Mao\u2019s 1939 essay \u201cIn Memory of Norman Bethune\u201d, which characterised Bethune as a man who had come from afar, who gave his life to the Chinese revolution, who embodied selflessness and internationalism.<br \/>\nFor years, I kept a poster in my office \u2013 the famous oil painting of Mao meeting Bethune in Yan\u2019an \u2013 as a quiet tribute. As the years passed and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3355730\/norman-bethunes-story-still-holds-lessons-china-canada-relations?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 PostI grew up in a classroom where the name Norman Bethune was invoked with reverence. Like every schoolchild in China, I could recite from&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\/152569"}],"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=152569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}