{"id":30807,"date":"2021-04-12T00:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/antony-blinken-china-aggression-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-04-12T04:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T19:17:37","slug":"blinken-china-aggression-against-taiwan-would-be-serious-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30807","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of state Blinken hits out at China over Taiwan and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Antony Blinken: China aggression would be \u2018serious mistake\u2019<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s failure to provide experts access made pandemic worse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/11\/china-v-russia-v-america-is-2021-the-year-orwells-1984-comes-true\">Opinion: China v Russia v America \u2013 has Orwell\u2019s 1984 arrived?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Sunday the US is concerned about China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/taiwan-says-fight-end-if-attacked-china-sends-more-jets\">aggressive actions against Taiwan<\/a> and warned it would be a \u201cserious mistake\u201d for anyone to try to change the status quo in the western Pacific by force.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/14\/chaos-under-heaven-josh-rogin-donald-trump-china-covid\">Chaos Under Heaven: Trump as raging bull in a China policy shop<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/antony-blinken-china-aggression-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken: China aggression would be \u2018serious mistake\u2019China\u2019s failure to provide experts access made pandemic worseOpinion: China v Russia v America \u2013 has Orwell\u2019s 1984 arrived?Joe Biden\u2019s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Sunday the US &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"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":[41,1854,50,74,45,473,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","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\/30807","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\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30807\/revisions\/30813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}