{"id":74924,"date":"2025-10-28T08:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/28\/china-is-watching-finland-warns-defeating-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-key-to-stability-in-indo-pacific"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:07:45","slug":"china-is-watching-finland-warns-defeating-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-key-to-stability-in-indo-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74924","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China is watching\u2019: Finland warns defeating Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister says Xi Jinping should note resolve to stay the course by global democratic alliance, including Australia<\/p>\n<p>Defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/24\/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-london-meeting-european-leaders\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a> is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland\u2019s defence minister has said, warning Europe and democratic partners, including Australia, face a fight of global consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen praised Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/22\/us-sanctions-russia-oil-vladimir-putin-refusal-ukraine-war\">sanctions on two Russian oil companies<\/a> last week, calling the move a major sign of resolve by the US president against Vladimir Putin\u2019s three-year long war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/28\/china-is-watching-finland-warns-defeating-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-key-to-stability-in-indo-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister says Xi Jinping should note resolve to stay the course by global democratic alliance, including AustraliaDefeating Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland\u2019s defence minister has said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"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":[41,43,645,50,221,848,470,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-europe","category-finland","category-nato","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","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\/74924","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\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74924\/revisions\/74925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}