{"id":32276,"date":"2021-05-20T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/south-korea-balancing-act-test-biden-plan-get-tough-china"},"modified":"2021-05-20T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:44:06","slug":"south-koreas-balancing-act-will-test-bidens-plan-to-get-tough-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32276","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s balancing act will test Biden\u2019s plan to get tough with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Seoul\u2019s navigation of geopolitical landscape in east Asia hints at limits of united front with US<\/p>\n<p>When the South Korean president goes to Washington DC on Friday, his discussions with Joe Biden about China will test the limits of the US president\u2019s rhetoric to \u201cwork with [its] allies to hold China accountable\u201d. It will also exhibit the dilemma faced by middle-sized powers such as South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said last month that Moon Jae-in\u2019s visit \u201cwill highlight the ironclad alliance between the United States and [South Korea], and the broad and deep ties between our governments, people and economies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/south-korea-balancing-act-test-biden-plan-get-tough-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Seoul\u2019s navigation of geopolitical landscape in east Asia hints at limits of united front with USWhen the South Korean president goes to Washington DC on Friday, his discussions with Joe Biden about China will test the limits of the US presid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,88,939,40,222,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-joe-biden","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/32276","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276\/revisions\/32277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}