{"id":56227,"date":"2023-06-26T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/china-downplays-wagner-rebellion-as-russias-internal-affairs"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T23:30:30","slug":"china-downplays-wagner-rebellion-as-russias-internal-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56227","title":{"rendered":"China downplays Wagner rebellion as Russia\u2019s \u2018internal affairs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says it supports Russia in maintaining national stability, without explicitly referring to Vladimir Putin personally<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials have described an aborted rebellion by the Wagner group of mercenaries as Moscow\u2019s \u201cinternal affairs\u201d, while one state media mouthpiece dismissed the divisions in Russia as an \u201cillusion\u201d being exploited by the west.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko held talks in Beijing on Sunday after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/25\/prigozhins-march-on-moscow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup\">most serious challenge to president Vladimir Putin\u2019s grip on power<\/a> since he came to power in 2000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/china-downplays-wagner-rebellion-as-russias-internal-affairs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says it supports Russia in maintaining national stability, without explicitly referring to Vladimir Putin personallyChinese officials have described an aborted rebellion by the Wagner group of mercenaries as Moscow\u2019s \u201cinternal affairs\u201d, while o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[50,221,419,930,818,2525,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskiy","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\/56227","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56227\/revisions\/56228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}