{"id":53345,"date":"2023-03-12T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/12\/how-to-break-the-xi-putin-axis-biden-must-engage-with-beijing"},"modified":"2023-03-12T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:00:44","slug":"how-to-break-the-xi-putin-axis-biden-must-engage-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53345","title":{"rendered":"How to break the Xi-Putin axis? Biden must engage with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is following Vladimir Putin\u2019s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoia<\/p>\n<p>Is there a school for autocrats? As if by rote, authoritarian leaders around the world trot out remarkably similar justifications for their repressive actions, democratic deficits and policy failures. These typically include scary claims that their country is under attack by foreign forces and saboteurs or is the victim of a global conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they have all taken an online correspondence course for aspiring dictators. Tyrants R Us.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/12\/how-to-break-the-xi-putin-axis-biden-must-engage-with-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is following Vladimir Putin\u2019s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoiaIs there a school for autocrats? As if by rote, authoritarian leaders around the world trot out remarka&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[41,50,939,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53345\/revisions\/53346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}