{"id":257135,"date":"2020-06-04T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257135"},"modified":"2020-06-04T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:28:08","slug":"eu-china-summit-postponed-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/04\/eu-china-summit-postponed-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-China summit postponed due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168614\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28277165_10155176471467050_2225360695090741248_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-168614 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28277165_10155176471467050_2225360695090741248_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28277165_10155176471467050_2225360695090741248_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/28277165_10155176471467050_2225360695090741248_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Angela Merkel held separate phone talks with China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping and EU Council President Charles Michel, Merkel\u2019s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AngelaMerkel\/photos\/a.67614367049.88715.59788447049\/10155176471462050\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AngelaMerkel\/\">Angela Merkel\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BERLIN<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The EU and China have agreed to postpone a key summit planned for September due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, said Berlin government official on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel held separate phone talks with China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping and EU Council President Charles Michel, Merkel\u2019s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey agreed that due to the overall pandemic situation the meeting cannot take place at the planned time and will be postponed,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Seibert has yet to provide any information as to when the summit will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel was planning to host EU leaders and Xi in Leipzig on Sept. 14 to enhance political and economic ties between the 27-member bloc and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Germany will take over the European Union&#8217;s rotating six-month presidency next month.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has killed more than 381,000 people worldwide, with infections reaching nearly 6.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2.7 million people have recovered from the disease, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN\u00a0\u2013 The EU and China have agreed to postpone a key summit planned for September due to the coronavirus disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":168614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257136,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257135\/revisions\/257136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}