{"id":46835,"date":"2022-07-29T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/28\/xi-jinping-tells-joe-biden-not-to-play-with-fire-over-taiwan-in-two-hour-call"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T01:35:55","slug":"xi-jinping-tells-joe-biden-not-to-play-with-fire-over-taiwan-in-two-hour-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46835","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden not to \u2018play with fire\u2019 over Taiwan in two-hour call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president reiterates opposition to undermining peace in Taiwan amid tension over potential Pelosi trip<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president has warned Joe Biden against \u201cplaying with fire\u201d over Taiwan in a highly anticipated phone call that lasted more than two hours on Thursday, as tensions remain high over the House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s potential trip to the island next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who play with fire will be perished by it. It is hoped that the US will be clear-eyed about this,\u201d Xi Jinping, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/eng\/zxxx_662805\/202207\/t20220729_10729593.html\">a Chinese statement<\/a>. He also urged the US to implement the three joint communiques that serve as the foundation for relations between the two countries \u201cboth in word and in deed\u201d. Xi vowed \u201cresolutely\u201d to safeguard China\u2019s national sovereignty and territorial integrity and said this is \u201cthe firm will of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/28\/xi-jinping-tells-joe-biden-not-to-play-with-fire-over-taiwan-in-two-hour-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president reiterates opposition to undermining peace in Taiwan amid tension over potential Pelosi tripThe Chinese president has warned Joe Biden against \u201cplaying with fire\u201d over Taiwan in a highly anticipated phone call that lasted more than two hou&#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":[41,1854,50,939,2185,74,45,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46835","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=46835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46835\/revisions\/46882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}