{"id":11560,"date":"2019-11-27T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/27\/china-leads-world-in-number-of-diplomatic-posts-leaving-us-in-its-wake"},"modified":"2019-11-27T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:00:27","slug":"china-leads-world-in-number-of-diplomatic-posts-leaving-us-in-its-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"China leads world in number of diplomatic posts, leaving US in its wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing opens five posts in past two years as US is caught \u2018in a period of limbo\u2019 and Australia trails at 27th <\/p>\n<p>China has ambitions to rival the US as the world\u2019s diplomatic superpower with Beijing\u2019s foreign affairs ministry running more embassies and consulates around the world than Washington\u2019s state department, which still has a quarter of its key positions unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Lowy global diplomatic index maps the size and reach of 61 diplomatic networks around the world by embassies, consulates, permanent missions and other diplomatic posts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/27\/china-leads-world-in-number-of-diplomatic-posts-leaving-us-in-its-wake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing opens five posts in past two years as US is caught \u2018in a period of limbo\u2019 and Australia trails at 27th China has ambitions to rival the US as the world\u2019s diplomatic superpower with Beijing\u2019s foreign affairs ministry running more embassies and c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,415,74,52,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}