{"id":59065,"date":"2023-10-09T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/09\/xi-jinpings-wants-a-multipolar-world-as-china-accelerates-its-shift-away-from-the-west"},"modified":"2023-10-09T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:45:21","slug":"xi-jinpings-wants-a-multipolar-world-as-china-accelerates-its-shift-away-from-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59065","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s wants a \u2018multipolar world\u2019, as China accelerates its shift away from the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of increasingly strained relations with the west, Beijing is attempting to build its influence in the global south<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/peak-china\">Read the rest of the Peak China? series here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/17\/hes-had-a-bad-summer-xi-faces-calls-to-loosen-grip-as-chinas-crises-mount\">a difficult summer<\/a> for China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping. He was faced with natural disasters, economic uncertainty and a roster of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/sep\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-disappearances-in-china-silence-sends-a-sinister-message\">disappearing ministers<\/a> that had observers around the world speculating on their fate.<\/p>\n<p>But one brief highlight among the gloom was the Brics summit in Johannesburg, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/24\/five-brics-nations-announce-admission-of-six-new-countries-to-bloc\">six new countries<\/a> were added to the bloc of emerging economies, more than doubling its size. With the addition of the new members, Brics will account for nearly half of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/09\/xi-jinpings-wants-a-multipolar-world-as-china-accelerates-its-shift-away-from-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of increasingly strained relations with the west, Beijing is attempting to build its influence in the global southRead the rest of the Peak China? series hereIt was a difficult summer for China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping. He was faced with natura&#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":[41,412,50,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","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\/59065","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=59065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59066,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59065\/revisions\/59066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}