{"id":39163,"date":"2021-11-23T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/as-china-threat-rises-can-aukus-alliance-recover-from-rancorous-birth"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:47:04","slug":"as-china-threat-rises-can-aukus-alliance-recover-from-rancorous-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39163","title":{"rendered":"As China threat rises, can Aukus alliance recover from rancorous birth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions mount about pact\u2019s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countries<\/p>\n<p>It was initially seen as an audacious enlistment by Joe Biden of Australia into the 21st-century struggle against China, elevating the country in the process to a significant regional military power and finally giving substance to Global Britain and its tilt to the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>But since then the \u201cruckus\u201d about Aukus, as Boris Johnson described it, has not stopped. If this was the start of a new \u201canti-hegemonic coalition\u201d to balance China\u2019s rise, it has not quite blown up on the launchpad, but nor has it taken off as smoothly as intended.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/as-china-threat-rises-can-aukus-alliance-recover-from-rancorous-birth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions mount about pact\u2019s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countriesIt was initially seen as an audacious enlistment by Joe Biden of Australia into the 21st-century struggle against China, elevating the country in the process to a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[504,41,2346,43,221,526,938,441,52,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-europe","category-france","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons","category-uk-news","category-us-military","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\/39163","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39164,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163\/revisions\/39164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}