{"id":52739,"date":"2023-02-18T23:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/feb\/18\/china-diplomat-wang-yi-us-balloon-reaction-absurd"},"modified":"2023-02-18T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T14:30:49","slug":"top-chinese-diplomat-calls-us-reaction-to-balloons-absurd-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52739","title":{"rendered":"Top Chinese diplomat calls US reaction to balloons &#8216;absurd&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most senior diplomat Wang Yi described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as &#8216;absurd&#8217; and &#8216;bordering on hysteria&#8217;, as well as an abuse of the use of force. Speaking at the Munich security conference, Wang said: &#8216;It does not show the US is strong; on the contrary, it shows it is weak&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/us-reaction-to-balloon-absurd-and-hysterical-says-top-chinese-diplomat\">US reaction to balloon \u2018absurd and hysterical\u2019, says top Chinese diplomat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/us-says-salvaged-sunken-remnants-of-downed-chinese-balloon-reinforce-it-was-for-spying\">FBI lab will get to the \u2018guts\u2019 of Chinese balloon \u2013 White House<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/feb\/18\/china-diplomat-wang-yi-us-balloon-reaction-absurd\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s most senior diplomat Wang Yi described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as &#8216;absurd&#8217; and &#8216;bordering on hysteria&#8217;, as well as an abuse of the use of force. Speaking at the Munich security conference, Wang said: &#8216;It does not show the US is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,2854,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-spy-balloon-incident-2023","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52739","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52739\/revisions\/52740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}