{"id":37072,"date":"2021-09-20T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/japan-urges-europe-to-speak-out-against-chinas-military-expansion"},"modified":"2021-09-20T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:14:20","slug":"japan-urges-europe-to-speak-out-against-chinas-military-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37072","title":{"rendered":"Japan urges Europe to speak out against China\u2019s military expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: in the first piece in a new Guardian series on China and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, Japan\u2019s defence minister says the international community must bolster deterrence efforts against Beijing\u2019s military<\/p>\n<p>Japan has urged European countries to speak out against China\u2019s aggression, warning that the international community must bolster deterrence efforts against Beijing\u2019s military and territorial expansion amid a growing risk of a hot conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Japan\u2019s defence minister, Nobuo Kishi, said China had become increasingly powerful politically, economically and militarily and was \u201cattempting to use its power to unilaterally change the status quo in the East and South China Seas\u201d, which are crucial to global shipping and include waters and islands claimed by several other nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/20\/japan-urges-europe-to-speak-out-against-chinas-military-expansion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: in the first piece in a new Guardian series on China and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, Japan\u2019s defence minister says the international community must bolster deterrence efforts against Beijing\u2019s militaryJapan has urged European countries to &#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":[41,50,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","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\/37072","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=37072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions\/37073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}