{"id":52989,"date":"2023-02-27T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/27\/lukashenko-xi-meeting-china-us-russia"},"modified":"2023-02-27T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:14:10","slug":"lukashenkos-planned-xi-meeting-shows-gulf-between-china-and-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52989","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko\u2019s planned Xi meeting shows gulf between China and the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House reiterates concerns Beijing considering sending lethal weapons to Russia while claiming to be peacemaker<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/feb\/27\/russia-ukraine-war-live-war-crimes-dominate-agenda-at-un-in-geneva-us-warns-china-against-arming-russia\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, is due to visit Beijing on Tuesday for a meeting with Xi Jinping, in a high-profile trip symbolising the widening gulf between the US and China over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>US officials spent the weekend reiterating their concerns that Beijing is considering sending lethal weapons to Russia, amid China\u2019s attempts to position itself as a peacemaker and deny that it would provide arms to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/27\/lukashenko-xi-meeting-china-us-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House reiterates concerns Beijing considering sending lethal weapons to Russia while claiming to be peacemakerRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesAlexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/52989","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52990,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52989\/revisions\/52990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}