{"id":53174,"date":"2023-03-07T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/china-foreign-minister-warns-of-potential-for-conflict-with-us-and-hails-russia-ties"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:25:06","slug":"china-foreign-minister-warns-of-potential-for-conflict-with-us-and-hails-russia-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53174","title":{"rendered":"China foreign minister warns of potential for conflict with US and hails Russia ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bellicose first press conference, Qin Gang rebuked Washington over its Taiwan policy and the balloon incident, while praising Beijing\u2019s relationship with Russia<\/p>\n<p>The US and China are heading towards inevitable conflict if Washington does not change its approach, China\u2019s new foreign minister has said in a fiery press conference in which he defended his country\u2019s strengthening relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In his first media appearance as foreign minister, held on Tuesday on the sidelines of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/china-two-sessions-explainer-what-is-it\">two sessions\u201d political gathering<\/a>, Qin Gang outlined China\u2019s foreign policy agenda for the coming years, presenting China and its relationship with Russia as a beacon of strength and stability, and the US and its allies as a source of tension and conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/china-foreign-minister-warns-of-potential-for-conflict-with-us-and-hails-russia-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bellicose first press conference, Qin Gang rebuked Washington over its Taiwan policy and the balloon incident, while praising Beijing\u2019s relationship with RussiaThe US and China are heading towards inevitable conflict if Washington does not change &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,221,419,74,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174\/revisions\/53175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}