{"id":44174,"date":"2022-05-04T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/beijing-orders-stress-test-as-fears-of-russia-style-sanctions-mount"},"modified":"2022-05-04T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:02:16","slug":"beijing-orders-stress-test-as-fears-of-russia-style-sanctions-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44174","title":{"rendered":"Beijing orders \u2018stress test\u2019 as fears of Russia-style sanctions mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: exercises are to prepare China for the possibility of similar embargos from the US and its allies<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about sweeping Russia-style sanctions from the west, Beijing has ordered a comprehensive \u201cstress test\u201d to study the implications of a similar scenario for its economy, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>According to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, an extensive exercise began around late February and early March when western allies imposed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow. Several key Chinese government agencies \u2013 from banking regulation to international trade \u2013 have been asked to come up with responses if the west imposed the same embargos on to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/beijing-orders-stress-test-as-fears-of-russia-style-sanctions-mount\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: exercises are to prepare China for the possibility of similar embargos from the US and its alliesConcerned about sweeping Russia-style sanctions from the west, Beijing has ordered a comprehensive \u201cstress test\u201d to study the implications of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"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":[41,50,221,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","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\/44174","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\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44174\/revisions\/44175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}