{"id":58930,"date":"2023-10-03T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/timor-leste-president-jose-ramos-horta-hits-back-at-australian-criticism-of-new-partnership-with-china"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:14:50","slug":"timor-leste-president-hits-back-at-australian-criticism-of-new-partnership-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58930","title":{"rendered":"Timor-Leste president hits back at Australian criticism of new partnership with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta rejects concerns about plan that includes enhanced military engagement as \u2018imagined Chinese ghosts\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Timor-Leste\u2019s president has hit back at criticism of a new partnership between his country and China, which includes plans to enhance military engagement, accusing detractors of \u201cimagining Chinese ghosts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta, serving as president for the second time, told the Guardian that both Timor-Leste and China were \u201cconfused\u201d by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/playing-the-china-card-or-a-serious-regional-threat-timor-lestes-new-deal-with-beijing-australia\">concerns raised over the upgrading of ties between the two countries<\/a> to a \u201ccomprehensive strategic partnership\u201d announced last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/timor-leste-president-jose-ramos-horta-hits-back-at-australian-criticism-of-new-partnership-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta rejects concerns about plan that includes enhanced military engagement as \u2018imagined Chinese ghosts\u2019Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTimor-Leste\u2019s president has hit back at criticism of a new part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,43,50,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-timor-leste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions\/58931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}