{"id":41636,"date":"2022-02-12T22:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/12\/ukraine-blinken-warns-russia"},"modified":"2022-02-12T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:20:52","slug":"ukraine-blinken-warns-russia-us-is-prepared-for-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41636","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Blinken warns Russia US is prepared for \u2018aggression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The secretary of state was speaking during a trip to Fiji as the US seeks to stem China\u2019s influence in the Pacific region<\/p>\n<p>The United States government used its first trip to the South Pacific by a secretary of state in almost 40 years to warn Russia to back off Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Blinken told reporters in Fiji he would speak to his Russian counterpart, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to advise that the US was prepared for either diplomacy or \u201caggression\u201d and warned of economic sanctions in the event of an invasion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/12\/ukraine-blinken-warns-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretary of state was speaking during a trip to Fiji as the US seeks to stem China\u2019s influence in the Pacific regionThe United States government used its first trip to the South Pacific by a secretary of state in almost 40 years to warn Russia to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2904,"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":[41,50,221,436,874,419,930,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/41636","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\/2904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636\/revisions\/41648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}