{"id":5704,"date":"2019-08-04T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/04\/mike-pompeo-urges-australia-to-stand-up-for-itself-over-trade-with-china"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T08:38:13","slug":"mike-pompeo-urges-australia-to-stand-up-for-itself-over-trade-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo urges Australia to stand up for itself over trade with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state dismisses warning by top security analyst, arguing \u2018you can sell your soul for a pile of soy beans or you can protect your people\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has declared \u201cyou can sell your soul for a pile of soy beans, or you can protect your people\u201d, dismissing a warning from prominent Australian security analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/hugh-white\">Hugh White<\/a> that Australia should avoid following Donald Trump into a confrontation with Beijing that America probably can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo issued the provocative declaration during a question-and-answer session at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/04\/mike-pompeo-urges-australia-to-stand-up-for-itself-over-trade-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state dismisses warning by top security analyst, arguing \u2018you can sell your soul for a pile of soy beans or you can protect your people\u2019The US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has declared \u201cyou can sell your soul for a pile of soy beans, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"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":[41,43,536,324,322,50,534,535,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-politics","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-china","category-coalition","category-south-china-sea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","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\/328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}