{"id":47297,"date":"2022-08-10T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/ambassadors-fiery-speech-was-the-sound-of-china-laying-out-terms-that-australia-has-already-declined"},"modified":"2022-08-10T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:29:22","slug":"ambassadors-fiery-speech-was-the-sound-of-china-laying-out-terms-that-australia-has-already-declined-katharine-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47297","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador\u2019s fiery speech was the sound of China laying out terms that Australia has already declined | Katharine Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s rules of rapprochement unveiled in Canberra were: don\u2019t squabble outdoors, don\u2019t pick sides and don\u2019t humiliate Beijing by failing to respect red lines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/chinese-ambassador-to-australia-says-beijing-will-use-all-necessary-means-for-taiwan-unification\">90 minutes of statecraft<\/a> that was candid enough to be deeply chilling, China\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, crystallised the central question in Australia-China relations.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s Australian representative \u2013 who was fluent, erudite, composed and periodically sardonic in response to preamble-heavy questioning at the National Press Club on Wednesday \u2013 floated a detente. How about more trade and less trash talk?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/ambassadors-fiery-speech-was-the-sound-of-china-laying-out-terms-that-australia-has-already-declined\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s rules of rapprochement unveiled in Canberra were: don\u2019t squabble outdoors, don\u2019t pick sides and don\u2019t humiliate Beijing by failing to respect red linesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastDuring 90 minutes of state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3246,"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":[41,43,324,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297","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\/3246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions\/47321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}