{"id":56238,"date":"2023-06-26T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-wagner-rebellion"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:58:38","slug":"xi-weighs-up-support-for-putin-after-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56238","title":{"rendered":"Xi weighs up support for Putin after rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s support for Moscow is based on pragmatism and ideology, with China\u2019s most powerful ally damaged by recent events<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/jun\/26\/russia-ukraine-war-live-kyiv-claims-advances-near-bakhmut-rouble-falls-to-15-month-low-after-wagner-rebellion\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Vladimir Putin reels from the biggest threat to his grip on power in years, his counterpart in Beijing will be considering the impact on the balance sheet of his support for the Russian president.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/25\/prigozhins-march-on-moscow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup\">mutiny<\/a>, in which troops led by Yevgeny Prigozhin came within a few hundred kilometres of Moscow, has exposed divisions in Russia\u2019s armed forces and cracks that threaten to undermine the stability of China\u2019s most powerful ally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/26\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-wagner-rebellion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s support for Moscow is based on pragmatism and ideology, with China\u2019s most powerful ally damaged by recent eventsRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesAs Vladimir Putin reels from the biggest threat to his grip on power in years, his counter&#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":[50,419,930,818,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","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\/56238","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=56238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56239,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56238\/revisions\/56239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}