{"id":56071,"date":"2023-06-19T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/antony-blinken-xi-jinping-beijing-china"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:20:01","slug":"antony-blinken-and-xi-jinping-hold-candid-talks-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56071","title":{"rendered":"Antony Blinken and Xi Jinping hold \u2018candid\u2019\u00a0talks in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting between China\u2019s president and US secretary of state takes place at time of heightened tension<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has wrapped up a rare trip to Beijing where he met China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, concluding a high-stakes visit aimed at stabilising spiralling relations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing in Beijing before his departure, Blinken said he had \u201can important conversation\u201d with Xi during the 35-minute encounter and stressed it was the responsibility of both countries to find a path forward.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/antony-blinken-xi-jinping-beijing-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting between China\u2019s president and US secretary of state takes place at time of heightened tensionThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has wrapped up a rare trip to Beijing where he met China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, concluding a high-stakes v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3781,"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":[2003,41,50,45,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/56071","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\/3781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56071\/revisions\/56084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}