{"id":53206,"date":"2023-03-07T22:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/china-foreign-minister-qin-gang"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:29:38","slug":"return-of-the-wolf-warriors-chinas-fiery-foreign-minister-qin-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53206","title":{"rendered":"Return of the wolf warriors? China\u2019s fiery foreign minister Qin Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile: A career diplomat, the trusted ally of President Xi says China has to face the west\u2019s \u2018jackals and wolves\u2019 head on<\/p>\n<p>US-China relations are a \u201czero-sum game where you die and I live\u201d. That was the summation of Qin Gang, China\u2019s fiery new foreign minister, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/china-foreign-minister-warns-of-potential-for-conflict-with-us-and-hails-russia-ties\">first media appearance<\/a> since starting the role in December.<\/p>\n<p>Qin was speaking at the sidelines of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/china-two-sessions-explainer-what-is-it\">two sessions<\/a>\u201d political meetings in Beijing. But while the parliamentary gathering is primarily concerned with domestic affairs, Qin took the opportunity to lay out China\u2019s strident position on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/china-foreign-minister-qin-gang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile: A career diplomat, the trusted ally of President Xi says China has to face the west\u2019s \u2018jackals and wolves\u2019 head onUS-China relations are a \u201czero-sum game where you die and I live\u201d. That was the summation of Qin Gang, China\u2019s fiery new foreign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3621,"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":[41,50,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/53206","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\/3621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53206\/revisions\/53207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}