{"id":46811,"date":"2022-07-28T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/27\/breakdown-of-communication-higher-risk-of-nuclear-conflict-with-china-or-russia-adviser-warns"},"modified":"2022-07-28T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T22:51:31","slug":"poor-communication-raises-risk-of-nuclear-war-with-china-or-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46811","title":{"rendered":"Poor communication \u2018raises risk of nuclear war with China or Russia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK\u2019s national security adviser, says backdoor channels had deteriorated<\/p>\n<p>The west risks the initiation of nuclear conflict with China or Russia because of a \u201cbreakdown of communication\u201d with the two countries, the UK\u2019s national security adviser has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Stephen Lovegrove, 55, said that the erosion of backdoor channels had resulted in an increased chance of an accidental escalation into war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/27\/breakdown-of-communication-higher-risk-of-nuclear-conflict-with-china-or-russia-adviser-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK\u2019s national security adviser, says backdoor channels had deterioratedThe west risks the initiation of nuclear conflict with China or Russia because of a \u201cbreakdown of communication\u201d with the two countries, the UK\u2019s national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"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":[50,2213,997,221,470,441,419,74,930,1051,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-cold-war","category-defence-policy","category-europe","category-nato","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-weapons-technology","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\/46811","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\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions\/46820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}