{"id":44787,"date":"2022-05-24T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/24\/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-underlines-need-for-free-and-open-indo-pacific-biden-says"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T08:14:50","slug":"joe-biden-invasion-of-ukraine-shows-need-for-free-and-open-indo-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44787","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: invasion of Ukraine shows need for free and open Indo-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of US, India, Japan and Australia meet in Tokyo for Quad summit Beijing claims is an attempt to contain China<\/p>\n<p>The turmoil caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has underlined the need for a free Indo-Pacific region, Joe Biden has said at a meeting with regional partners that Beijing has condemned as part of a US-led attempt to contain China.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and the leaders of a loose alliance known as the Quad \u2013 India, Japan and Australia \u2013 reaffirmed their commitment to a \u201cfree and open\u201d Indo-Pacific during talks in Tokyo on Tuesday. The comments came one day after the US president said Washington would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/us-would-defend-taiwan-if-attacked-by-china-says-joe-biden\">ready to intervene militarily to defend Taiwan<\/a>, prompting China to accuse him of \u201cplaying with fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/24\/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-underlines-need-for-free-and-open-indo-pacific-biden-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of US, India, Japan and Australia meet in Tokyo for Quad summit Beijing claims is an attempt to contain ChinaThe turmoil caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has underlined the need for a free Indo-Pacific region, Joe Biden has said at a meet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,43,62,88,939,61,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-india","category-japan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/44787","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44787\/revisions\/44788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}