{"id":69286,"date":"2025-02-04T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/marco-rubio-panama-china-us-relationship-infrastructure-plan"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T04:52:43","slug":"rubio-welcomes-panamas-move-to-exit-chinese-infrastructure-plan-as-great-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69286","title":{"rendered":"Rubio welcomes Panama\u2019s move to exit Chinese infrastructure plan as \u2018great step forward\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News comes after US secretary of state visited Panama to pressure the country over its ties with Beijing<\/p>\n<p>US secretary of state Marco Rubio has welcomed Panama\u2019s decision to let its participation in China\u2019s global infrastructure plan expire, calling the move \u201ca great step forward\u201d for its ties with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Any move by Panama to distance itself from Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/ng-interactive\/2018\/jul\/30\/what-china-belt-road-initiative-silk-road-explainer\">signature Belt and Road Initiative<\/a> (BRI) represents a win for Washington, which has argued that Beijing uses the scheme for \u201cdebt trap diplomacy\u201d to cement its global influence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/marco-rubio-panama-china-us-relationship-infrastructure-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News comes after US secretary of state visited Panama to pressure the country over its ties with BeijingUS secretary of state Marco Rubio has welcomed Panama\u2019s decision to let its participation in China\u2019s global infrastructure plan expire, calling the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3544,"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":[246,412,50,1541,1443,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-marco-rubio","category-panama","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\/69286","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\/3544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286\/revisions\/69287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}