{"id":55754,"date":"2023-06-05T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/chinas-war-chest-how-beijing-has-rearranged-the-diplomatic-pieces-ahead-of-a-potential-conflict"},"modified":"2023-06-05T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T23:01:13","slug":"chinas-war-chest-how-beijing-has-rearranged-the-diplomatic-pieces-ahead-of-a-potential-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55754","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s war chest: how Beijing has rearranged the diplomatic pieces ahead of a potential conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is shoring up international support, while attempting to isolate Taiwan on the world stage<\/p>\n<p>In diplomatic terms, China could be said to have already won its battle against Taiwan. Most of the world\u2019s governments \u2013 including the US \u2013 formally agree with the Chinese Communist party\u2019s (CCP) position that there is just one China, of which the People\u2019s Republic of China is the sole government.<\/p>\n<p>The tension lies in the fact that the CCP regards Taiwan, a self-governing, democratic island of 23 million people, as part of that one China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/chinas-war-chest-how-beijing-has-rearranged-the-diplomatic-pieces-ahead-of-a-potential-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is shoring up international support, while attempting to isolate Taiwan on the world stageIn diplomatic terms, China could be said to have already won its battle against Taiwan. Most of the world\u2019s governments \u2013 including the US \u2013 formally agree &#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":[41,50,419,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-taiwan","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\/55754","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=55754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55754\/revisions\/55755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}