{"id":39029,"date":"2021-11-19T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/naughty-guy-top-chinese-diplomat-accuses-australia-of-sabre-wielding-with-nuclear-submarine-deal"},"modified":"2021-11-19T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:30:10","slug":"naughty-guy-top-chinese-diplomat-accuses-australia-of-sabre-wielding-with-nuclear-submarine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39029","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Naughty guy\u2019: top Chinese diplomat accuses Australia of \u2018sabre wielding\u2019 with nuclear submarine deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Acting ambassador to Australia, Wang Xining, says politicians including Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott are not serving Australia\u2019s interests<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top Chinese diplomat has likened Australia to \u201ca naughty guy\u201d over the Aukus nuclear submarine deal, saying it jeopardises Australia\u2019s peace-loving reputation and the Australian people \u201cshould be more worried\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s acting ambassador to Australia, Wang Xining, said Australia would be branded as a \u201csabre wielder\u201d rather than a \u201cpeace defender\u201d as a result of the plan to acquire at least eight nuclear-powered submarines, which would also affect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/iaea-aukus-deal-nuclear-submarines\">nuclear non-proliferation system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/naughty-guy-top-chinese-diplomat-accuses-australia-of-sabre-wielding-with-nuclear-submarine-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Acting ambassador to Australia, Wang Xining, says politicians including Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott are not serving Australia\u2019s interestsDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingA top Chinese diplomat has likened Austra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[41,43,645,324,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions\/39030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}