{"id":10386,"date":"2023-04-07T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2023-04-07T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:43:30","slug":"china-is-ghosting-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10386","title":{"rendered":"China is ghosting the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to reschedule his date with China. Beijing is giving him the cold shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration called off Blinken\u2019s planned trip to Beijing in February after a Chinese spy balloon traversed U.S. skies, but has since been trying to restart high-level talks. That includes rescheduling the Blinken visit, and setting up other trips by top U.S. officials and a phone call between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a current U.S. official and a former State Department official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But China is rebuffing the U.S. efforts&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;China also is pressing back particularly hard on the proposals for a Xi-Biden call.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/china-contact-united-states-00090495\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/china-contact-united-states-00090495<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to reschedule his date with China. Beijing is giving him the cold shoulder.<br \/>\nThe Biden administration called off Blinken\u2019s planned trip to Beijing in February after a Chinese spy balloon traversed U.S. skies, but has since been trying to restart high-level talks. That includes rescheduling the Blinken visit, and setting up other trips by top U.S. officials and a phone call between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a current U.S. official and a former State Department official said.<\/p>\n<p>But China is rebuffing the U.S. efforts&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China also is pressing back particularly hard on the proposals for a Xi-Biden call.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1702,89,390,272,355,314,619],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balloons","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}