{"id":53490,"date":"2023-03-16T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/outrage-confusion-china-reaction-aukus-deal"},"modified":"2023-03-16T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:46:07","slug":"path-of-error-and-danger-china-angry-and-confused-over-aukus-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53490","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Path of error and danger\u2019: China angry and confused over Aukus deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal is designed to counter perceived threat from Beijing but analysts in China say it could push region closer to conflict<\/p>\n<p>When the UK, the US and Australia announced the details of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/14\/what-is-the-aukus-submarine-deal-and-what-does-it-mean-the-key-facts\">mu<\/a>l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/14\/what-is-the-aukus-submarine-deal-and-what-does-it-mean-the-key-facts\">tibillion-dollar deal<\/a> to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines on Monday, the reaction in China was both outrage and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The allies were \u201cwalking further and further down the path of error and danger\u201d, said Wang Wenbin, China\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson, on Tuesday. The Chinese mission to the UN accused the three countries of fuelling an arms race.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/16\/outrage-confusion-china-reaction-aukus-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal is designed to counter perceived threat from Beijing but analysts in China say it could push region closer to conflictWhen the UK, the US and Australia announced the details of their multibillion-dollar deal to provide Australia with nuclear-power&#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":[41,2346,43,645,1585,50,319,938,4,52,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-military","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/53490","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=53490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53490\/revisions\/53491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}