{"id":12467,"date":"2019-12-26T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/26\/reasons-to-be-fearful-the-international-news-review-of-2019"},"modified":"2019-12-26T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:00:05","slug":"reasons-to-be-fearful-the-international-news-review-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12467","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be fearful \u2013 the international news review of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House \u2013 as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulence<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/26\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-the-international-news-review-of-2019\">Click here for 2019\u2019s reasons to be cheerful <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A year of high anxiety was rendered more alarming by intensifying clashes of interest between world powers. As international cooperation declined, and nationalist agendas gathered strength, China, the US, Russia and Europe, and their respective allies, emulators and proxies, engaged in often dangerous competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese communist regime\u2019s increasingly assertive behaviour at home and abroad, reflecting the authoritarian outlook of its paramount leader-for-life, Xi Jinping, produced head-on collisions with western countries, notably over Hong Kong, trade, technology and the repression of the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/26\/reasons-to-be-fearful-the-international-news-review-of-2019\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House \u2013 as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulenceClick here for 2019\u2019s reasons to be cheerful A year of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[246,41,50,221,848,526,533,451,212,82,56,40,80,61,1014,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-finland","category-france","category-germany","category-italy","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-new-zealand","category-north-korea","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-syria","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions\/12468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}