{"id":39830,"date":"2021-12-15T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/15\/vladimir-putin-to-attend-opening-of-winter-olympics-in-beijing"},"modified":"2021-12-16T02:02:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:02:59","slug":"putin-assures-xi-he-will-go-to-winter-olympics-in-show-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39830","title":{"rendered":"Putin assures Xi he will go to Winter Olympics in show of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader defies western boycott and forms \u2018new model of cooperation\u2019 with Chinese leader<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has confirmed he will attend the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, an event that Boris Johnson and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/08\/winter-olympics-boris-johnson-confirms-no-uk-ministers-or-officials-will-attend-beijing-2022\">western leaders have boycotted<\/a> in protest at human rights abuses in China.<\/p>\n<p>Putin made the pledge during a video call with the Chinese leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a>, as he said that a \u201cnew model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based on other matters of principles such as non-interference in [each other\u2019s] internal affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/15\/vladimir-putin-to-attend-opening-of-winter-olympics-in-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader defies western boycott and forms \u2018new model of cooperation\u2019 with Chinese leaderVladimir Putin has confirmed he will attend the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, an event that Boris Johnson and other western leaders have boycotte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"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":[41,50,419,818,1716,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-vladimir-putin","category-winter-olympics","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39830","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\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39839,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39830\/revisions\/39839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}