{"id":28267,"date":"2021-02-11T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/biden-raises-taiwan-tensions-and-human-rights-with-xi-jinping-in-first-phone-call"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T04:11:32","slug":"biden-raises-taiwan-and-human-rights-with-xi-jinping-in-first-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28267","title":{"rendered":"Biden raises Taiwan and human rights with Xi Jinping in first phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has affirmed the US\u2019s tough line on China\u2019s human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>Xi defended China\u2019s policies as matters of sovereignty, but told the US leader confrontation would be \u201ca disaster\u201d, and called for the two sides to re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/biden-raises-taiwan-tensions-and-human-rights-with-xi-jinping-in-first-phone-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China Joe Biden has affirmed the US\u2019s tough line on China\u2019s human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since t&#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":[41,50,939,74,45,47,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28267","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=28267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28269,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28267\/revisions\/28269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}