{"id":46218,"date":"2022-07-09T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/blinken-and-wang-meet-in-bid-to-defuse-us-china-tensions"},"modified":"2022-07-09T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T10:14:43","slug":"blinken-and-wang-meet-in-bid-to-defuse-us-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46218","title":{"rendered":"Blinken voices concern to China over stance on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s \u2018alignment with Russia\u2019 is complicating relations, US secretary of state tells Wang Yi in talks aimed at defusing tensions<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine is complicating US-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues, the US secretary of state has told his Chinese counterpart<\/p>\n<p>In five hours of talks in their first face-to-face meeting since October, Antony Blinken said he expressed deep concern to the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, about Beijing\u2019s stance on Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine and did not believe Beijing\u2019s protestations that it was neutral in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/blinken-and-wang-meet-in-bid-to-defuse-us-china-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s \u2018alignment with Russia\u2019 is complicating relations, US secretary of state tells Wang Yi in talks aimed at defusing tensionsChina\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine is complicating US-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[2003,41,50,45,47,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-46218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46218","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46218\/revisions\/46232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}