{"id":100448,"date":"2020-03-28T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100448"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:26:08","slug":"coronavirus-warning-against-made-in-china-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/28\/coronavirus-warning-against-made-in-china-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Warning against \u2018Made in China\u2019 monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>LIONEL RAJAPAKSE<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Most countries in the world are\nexperiencing a shortage of essentials. These include day-to-day household\nitems, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, food items, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, only a couple of cities in\nChina were locked down, due to the COVID-19 threat. If the whole of China had\nbeen locked down, there would have been a catastrophic situation in the world,\nwhich is dependent of Chinese products. COVID-19 has alerted the world to the\ndanger of relying on one country for supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open economic policies have worsened\nthis situation, especially in the developing world. Once a country opens its\neconomy, domestic products of that country disappear from the market, and are replaced\nwith cheap imports, mostly from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 has sent a message to the\ndeveloping nations: Don\u2019t rely on China, or any other country, for that matter,\nfor the products you can produce by yourselves. Grab this opportunity and start\nmanufacturing whatever you can. Don\u2019t be the victims of the open economy\nanymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIONEL RAJAPAKSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIONEL RAJAPAKSE Most countries in the world are experiencing a shortage of essentials. These include day-to-day household items, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, food items, etc. Luckily, only a couple of cities in China were locked down, due to the COVID-19 threat. If the whole of China had been locked down, there would have been a catastrophic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}