{"id":19352,"date":"2020-06-16T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/eu-discuss-greater-defence-cooperation-us-china-tensions"},"modified":"2020-06-16T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:15:10","slug":"eu-to-discuss-greater-defence-cooperation-in-face-of-us-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19352","title":{"rendered":"EU to discuss greater defence cooperation in face of US-China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders fear two powers are becoming embroiled in permanent confrontation<\/p>\n<p>EU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>The call for greater EU defence cooperation comes in a Franco-German joint paper and, although familiar, has been given added urgency by fears in the bloc that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/china-raises-us-trade-tensions-with-warning-of-new-cold-war\">US and China<\/a> will become locked in a permanent big power confrontation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/15\/eu-discuss-greater-defence-cooperation-us-china-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders fear two powers are becoming embroiled in permanent confrontationEU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confron&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,415,221,530,526,533,554,45,47,631,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-european-union","category-france","category-germany","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions\/19353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}