{"id":25387,"date":"2020-12-04T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/china-hits-back-us-spy-chief-greatest-threat-freedom-claim"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:51:40","slug":"china-hits-back-at-us-spy-chiefs-greatest-threat-to-freedom-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25387","title":{"rendered":"China hits back at US spy chief&#8217;s &#8216;greatest threat to freedom&#8217; claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese official says article labelling it as biggest threat to democracy since WW2 is \u2018concoction of lies\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has rejected as a \u201cconcoction of lies\u201d an incendiary article by the US\u2019s most senior intelligence official, who labelled China the biggest threat to democracy and freedom since the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wall Street Journal column, John Ratcliffe, the US director of national intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/03\/china-beijing-america-democracy-freedom\">said China was bent on world domination<\/a> and the US needed to prepare for an \u201copen-ended period of confrontation\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/china-hits-back-us-spy-chief-greatest-threat-freedom-claim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese official says article labelling it as biggest threat to democracy since WW2 is \u2018concoction of lies\u2019China has rejected as a \u201cconcoction of lies\u201d an incendiary article by the US\u2019s most senior intelligence official, who labelled China the biggest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,415,45,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/25387","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions\/25388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}