{"id":42578,"date":"2022-03-18T13:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T04:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/18\/chinas-decisive-turning-point-will-it-side-with-russia-and-divide-the-world"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T04:57:32","slug":"chinas-decisive-turning-point-will-it-side-with-russia-and-divide-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42578","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s decisive turning point: will it side with Russia and divide the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the world faces the possibility of a dramatic shift in the geopolitical balance of power as Beijing mulls support for Russia over the Ukraine war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden is due to make a phone call to Xi Jinping on Friday at a potential tipping point in China\u2019s role in the world as it decides how far to go in backing Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>While China has abstained on United Nations security council resolutions on the invasion, it has sided with Moscow rhetorically, echoing Russian talking points blaming Nato, and recycling conspiracy theories, and the Biden administration believes it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/china-has-already-decided-to-send-economic-aid-to-russia-in-ukraine-conflict-us-officials-fear\">already decided<\/a> to bail Russia out economically.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/18\/chinas-decisive-turning-point-will-it-side-with-russia-and-divide-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the world faces the possibility of a dramatic shift in the geopolitical balance of power as Beijing mulls support for Russia over the Ukraine warRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesJoe Biden is due to make a phone call to Xi Jinping on Friday a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2962,"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":[41,50,221,939,419,930,84,47,818,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-joe-biden","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578","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\/2962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions\/42579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}