{"id":52668,"date":"2023-02-16T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/competitor-or-adversary-the-west-struggles-to-define-its-relationship-with-beijing"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T04:00:30","slug":"competitor-or-adversary-the-west-struggles-to-define-its-relationship-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52668","title":{"rendered":"Competitor or adversary? The west struggles to define its relationship with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, the US\u2019s most vital trade partner and its main long-term competitor, presents the country with a sticky \u2018pacing challenge\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If you want to solve a problem, it helps to be able to define it, but when it comes to a problem like China, western leaders have been struggling to find the right words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/11\/uk-to-designate-china-a-threat-in-hawkish-foreign-policy-shift\">Liz Truss sought<\/a> to designate China as a \u201cthreat\u201d to Britain, but did not stay prime minister long enough for that to become established policy. Her successor, Rishi Sunak, has opted for the less combative \u201csystemic challenge\u201d but he is under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2023\/feb\/14\/rishi-sunak-tory-conservatives-labour-china-latest-politics-news-updates?page=with:block-63eb74318f0849decd731c3f\">pressure from backbench MPs<\/a> to follow Truss\u2019s path and call Beijing a \u201cstrategic threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/16\/competitor-or-adversary-the-west-struggles-to-define-its-relationship-with-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, the US\u2019s most vital trade partner and its main long-term competitor, presents the country with a sticky \u2018pacing challenge\u2019If you want to solve a problem, it helps to be able to define it, but when it comes to a problem like China, western leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1388,"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":[41,1854,50,45,47,631,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52668","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\/1388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52668\/revisions\/52680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}