{"id":24919,"date":"2020-11-19T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/chinas-xi-jinping-warns-against-protectionism-in-apparent-swipe-at-us"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:27:50","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-warns-against-protectionism-in-apparent-swipe-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24919","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Xi Jinping warns against protectionism in apparent swipe at US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Apec the major regional trade pact signed on Sunday, which excludes the US, will drive global growth<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping has pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade, vowing to keep his \u201csuper-sized\u201d economy open and warning against protectionism in a global economy eviscerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by the signing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/nov\/15\/china-and-14-asia-pacific-countries-agree-historic-free-trade-deal\">world\u2019s largest trade pact<\/a> over the weekend, Xi said the Asia-Pacific is the \u201cforerunner driving global growth\u201d in a world hit by \u201cmultiple challenges\u201d, including coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/chinas-xi-jinping-warns-against-protectionism-in-apparent-swipe-at-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Apec the major regional trade pact signed on Sunday, which excludes the US, will drive global growthPresident Xi Jinping has pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade, vowing to keep his \u201csuper-sized\u201d economy open and warnin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,557,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-international-trade","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\/24919","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions\/24920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}