{"id":557,"date":"2023-09-18T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=557"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:42:07","slug":"asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-14.jpg 708w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-14-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Reuters): After the German foreign minister refers to Xi as a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; China complains to Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Chinese foreign ministry, China has complained to Germany after that country&#8217;s foreign minister referred to President Xi Jinping as a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; calling the term &#8220;absurd&#8221; and a &#8220;open political provocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When questioned about Russia&#8217;s attack on Ukraine during a live interview with Fox News last week, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What message would a victory by Putin send to other foreign leaders in power, such as Xi and the Chinese president? She spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative for the Chinese foreign ministry, Mao Ning, called Baerbock&#8217;s comments &#8220;extremely absurd&#8221; and an insult to China&#8217;s political honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a routine press conference, Mao stated, &#8220;They are an open political provocation,&#8221; adding that China had complained to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baerbock is a vocal opponent of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stated that China was a threat to the &#8220;fundamentals of how we live together in this world&#8221; in August. She had previously claimed that visiting China had been &#8220;more than shocking&#8221; in some ways and that Beijing was increasingly more of a structural rival than a trading partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s mission to China to try to normalize relations ended, U.S. President Joe Biden also referred to Xi as a &#8220;dictator&#8221; in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters): After the German foreign minister refers to Xi as a &#8220;dictator,&#8221; China complains to Germany. According to the Chinese foreign ministry, China has complained to Germany after that country&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}