{"id":53826,"date":"2023-03-26T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/26\/us-world-policeman-american-isolationism"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:00:11","slug":"the-world-still-needs-a-policeman-lets-hope-the-us-doesnt-quit-the-job-simon-tisdall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53826","title":{"rendered":"The world still needs a policeman. Let\u2019s hope the US doesn\u2019t quit the job | Simon Tisdall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n<p>American global leadership took a serious kicking last week. Politicians and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic queued up to condemn George W Bush\u2019s and Tony Blair\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/19\/2003-iraq-invasion-legacy-west-international-law-ukraine\" title=\"\">disastrous invasion<\/a> of Iraq 20 years ago this month. At the same time, Congress moved to repeal the war powers act that enables a US president to launch military interventions abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In Moscow, meanwhile, Xi Jinping, stringing along his Russian puppet, Vladimir Putin, proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-moscow-ukraine-war\" title=\"\">new global order<\/a> to replace the post-1945 US-led model. China\u2019s de facto dictator is generously offering to \u201cstand guard\u201d over the planet. In Xi\u2019s brave new world, subservience and surveillance replace shock and awe. Democracy takes a back seat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/26\/us-world-policeman-american-isolationism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir PutinAmerican global leadership took a serious kicking last week. Politicians and pundits on both sides &#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":[50,1007,415,221,939,1150,419,930,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-joe-biden","category-republicans","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-news","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\/53826","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=53826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53826\/revisions\/53827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}