{"id":42126,"date":"2022-03-03T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/china-russia-invade-ukraine-winter-olympics-beijing"},"modified":"2022-03-03T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:00:05","slug":"china-told-russia-not-to-invade-ukraine-during-winter-olympics-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42126","title":{"rendered":"China denies it asked Russia not to invade Ukraine during Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing dismisses as \u2018fake news\u2019 claims that Chinese officials had some knowledge of Russia\u2019s plans<\/p>\n<p>China has vehemently denied a report that it asked Moscow to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics, denouncing it as \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of rhetoric is to divert attention and shift blame, which is utterly despicable,\u201d Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Thursday when asked by journalists about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/02\/us\/politics\/russia-ukraine-china.html\">New York Times report<\/a> published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/china-russia-invade-ukraine-winter-olympics-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing dismisses as \u2018fake news\u2019 claims that Chinese officials had some knowledge of Russia\u2019s plansChina has vehemently denied a report that it asked Moscow to delay its invasion of Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics, denouncing it as \u201cfake news\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,419,203,930,1716,2523,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-russia","category-sport","category-ukraine","category-winter-olympics","category-winter-olympics-beijing-2022","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42140,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42126\/revisions\/42140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}