{"id":51810,"date":"2023-01-12T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/12\/attack-from-space-would-trigger-collective-defence-say-us-and-japan-amid-china-fears"},"modified":"2023-01-12T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T04:16:53","slug":"attack-from-space-would-trigger-collective-defence-say-us-and-japan-amid-china-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51810","title":{"rendered":"Attack from space would trigger collective defence, say US and Japan, amid China fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken says China is \u2018greatest shared strategic challenge\u2019 in the region as US backs Japan\u2019s biggest military build-up since second world war<\/p>\n<p>The US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have said that an attack in space would trigger their security treaty, as senior officials from both countries warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> represents the \u201cgreatest strategic challenge\u201d to regional security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree that [China] is the greatest shared strategic challenge that we, our allies and partners face,\u201d the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Thursday after meeting his Japanese counterpart, Yoshimasa Hayashi, in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/12\/attack-from-space-would-trigger-collective-defence-say-us-and-japan-amid-china-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken says China is \u2018greatest shared strategic challenge\u2019 in the region as US backs Japan\u2019s biggest military build-up since second world warThe US and Japan have said that an attack in space would trigger their security treaty, as senior offic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,50,88,297,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-space","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/51810","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51810\/revisions\/51811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}