{"id":59246,"date":"2023-10-16T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/china-russia-harden-positions-gaza-war-geopolitical-tensions"},"modified":"2023-10-16T23:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:47:35","slug":"china-and-russia-harden-positions-on-gaza-as-war-stirs-geopolitical-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59246","title":{"rendered":"China and Russia harden positions on Gaza as war stirs geopolitical tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict highlights growing gulf with west, as other big developing powers face difficult diplomatic choices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/oct\/16\/israel-hamas-war-live-update-news-today-gaza-water-fuel-aid-egypt-border-rafah-crossing-latest-updates\">Israel and Hamas at war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China and Russia have hardened their positions towards the conflict in Gaza in recent days, as the war between Israel and Hamas aggravates existing geopolitical tensions and underscores the growing gulf between the cold war allies and western powers such as the US, UK and France.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese foreign minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/oct\/15\/israel-hamas-war-live-us-sends-second-aircraft-carrier-to-deter-hostile-actions-against-israel-ground-assault-on-gaza-looms?page=with:block-652b7f7a8f080e3e7b6d7ea4#block-652b7f7a8f080e3e7b6d7ea4\">said<\/a> over the weekend that Israel\u2019s bombing campaign had gone \u201cbeyond the scope of self-defence\u201d and that it \u201cshould stop collective punishment of the people of Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/china-russia-harden-positions-gaza-war-geopolitical-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict highlights growing gulf with west, as other big developing powers face difficult diplomatic choicesIsrael and Hamas at war \u2013 live updatesChina and Russia have hardened their positions towards the conflict in Gaza in recent days, as the war bet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4011,"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":[41,50,221,1644,3001,1005,3006,212,399,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-gaza","category-hamas","category-israel","category-israel-hamas-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-russia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59246","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\/4011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59246\/revisions\/59247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}