{"id":56754,"date":"2023-07-18T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/henry-kissinger-meets-china-defence-minister-beijing"},"modified":"2023-07-18T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:34:19","slug":"henry-kissinger-meets-chinas-defence-minister-in-surprise-visit-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56754","title":{"rendered":"Henry Kissinger meets China\u2019s defence minister in surprise visit to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-US secretary of state\u2019s meeting with Li Shangfu comes amid hopes of improved ties between two countries<\/p>\n<p>The veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger has met China\u2019s defence minister in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>According to a readout on Tuesday from the Chinese defence ministry, Li Shangfu said \u201cfriendly communication\u201d between China and the US had been \u201cdestroyed\u201d because \u201csome people in the United States did not meet China halfway\u201d. Kissinger said he was a \u201cfriend of China\u201d, according to the readout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/henry-kissinger-meets-china-defence-minister-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-US secretary of state\u2019s meeting with Li Shangfu comes amid hopes of improved ties between two countriesThe veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger has met China\u2019s defence minister in Beijing.According to a readout on Tuesday from the Chinese defence min&#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":[41,50,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/56754","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=56754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions\/56755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}