{"id":52729,"date":"2023-02-18T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/us-reaction-to-balloon-absurd-and-hysterical-says-top-chinese-diplomat"},"modified":"2023-02-18T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:40:51","slug":"us-reaction-to-balloon-absurd-and-hysterical-says-top-chinese-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52729","title":{"rendered":"US reaction to balloon \u2018absurd and hysterical\u2019, says top Chinese diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Yi also says China is preparing to outline position on Russian war against Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s most senior diplomat has described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as \u201cabsurd and hysterical\u201d, as well as an abuse of the use of force.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on stage at the Munich security conference on Saturday, Wang Yi said: \u201cIt does not show the US is strong; on the contrary it shows it is weak\u201d. The foreign affairs director said he believed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/04\/chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-us\">the shooting down<\/a> was part of an attempt to divert attention from the domestic problems of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/us-reaction-to-balloon-absurd-and-hysterical-says-top-chinese-diplomat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Yi also says China is preparing to outline position on Russian war against UkraineChina\u2019s most senior diplomat has described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as \u201cabsurd and hysterical\u201d, as well as an abuse of the use of force.Speaking on s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3585,"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":[41,50,221,419,74,930,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/52729","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\/3585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52729\/revisions\/52730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}