{"id":46759,"date":"2022-07-26T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/myanmar-executions-us-presses-china-to-rein-in-junta-saying-it-cannot-be-business-as-usual"},"modified":"2022-07-26T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:55:02","slug":"myanmar-executions-us-presses-china-to-rein-in-junta-saying-it-cannot-be-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46759","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar executions: US presses China to rein in junta, saying it cannot be \u2018business as usual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, amid global outrage at killings<\/p>\n<p>A senior US official has urged China to do more to rein in Myanmar\u2019s military after its execution of four people, saying that \u201cit cannot be business as usual with the junta\u201d, as the killings drew widespread international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>State department spokesperson Ned Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/briefings\/department-press-briefing-july-25-2022\/\">told a briefing<\/a>: \u201cArguably, no country has the potential to influence the trajectory of Burma\u2019s next steps more so than the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China]\u201d, noting that the junta \u201chas not faced the level of economic and in some cases diplomatic pressure that we would like to see\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/myanmar-executions-us-presses-china-to-rein-in-junta-saying-it-cannot-be-business-as-usual\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, amid global outrage at killingsA senior US official has urged China to do more to rein in Myanmar\u2019s military after its execution of four people, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"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":[1038,82,1906,61,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759","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\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759\/revisions\/46763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}