{"id":50334,"date":"2022-11-18T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/asia-must-not-become-arena-for-big-power-contest-says-chinas-xi-ahead-of-apec-summit"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:35:34","slug":"asia-must-not-become-arena-for-big-power-contest-says-chinas-xi-ahead-of-apec-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50334","title":{"rendered":"Asia must not become arena for \u2018big power contest\u2019, says China\u2019s Xi ahead of Apec summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid race for influence in Asia-Pacific region, Chinese president says no attempt to \u2018wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by our times\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Asia-Pacific is no one\u2019s back yard and should not become an arena of big power rivalry, China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has said, warning against cold war tensions in a region that is a flashpoint of competition between Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s remarks on Thursday came ahead of Friday\u2019s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Bangkok, and were an apparent reference to US efforts with regional allies and partners to blunt what they see as China\u2019s growing coercive economic and military influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/asia-must-not-become-arena-for-big-power-contest-says-chinas-xi-ahead-of-apec-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid race for influence in Asia-Pacific region, Chinese president says no attempt to \u2018wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by our times\u2019 The Asia-Pacific is no one\u2019s back yard and should not become an arena of big power rivalry, Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[1192,41,50,93,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-thailand","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\/50334","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50335,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50334\/revisions\/50335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}