{"id":41419,"date":"2022-02-06T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/biden-rattles-his-sabre-at-putin-but-its-xi-he-really-wants-to-scare"},"modified":"2022-02-06T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T08:15:19","slug":"biden-rattles-his-sabre-at-putin-but-its-xi-he-really-wants-to-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41419","title":{"rendered":"Biden rattles his sabre at Putin \u2026 but it\u2019s Xi he really wants to scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russian axis is a real threat, in Taiwan and elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>If, as seems increasingly probable, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine, tub-thumping US and British politicians who have spent weeks scaring the public with loose talk of looming Armageddon will have some explaining to do.<\/p>\n<p>The military build-up directed by Vladimir Putin, Russia\u2019s president, is real enough. But suspicion grows that the actual as opposed to the hypothetical threat of a large-scale conventional attack <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/01\/ukraine-russia-us-blinken-lavrov-biden-putin.html\" title=\"\">is being mis-read, misinterpreted, over-estimated or deliberately exaggerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/biden-rattles-his-sabre-at-putin-but-its-xi-he-really-wants-to-scare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russian axis is a real threat, in Taiwan and elsewhereIf, as seems increasingly probable, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukrai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[531,50,2351,470,419,74,930,47,818,2525,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-liz-truss","category-nato","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskiy","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\/41419","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41419\/revisions\/41420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}