{"id":23150,"date":"2026-09-29T23:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23150"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:49:48","slug":"countering-asias-axis-of-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23150","title":{"rendered":"Countering Asia&#8217;s Axis of Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CCP is threatened by American military power, but it&#8217;s most threatened by free expression and free peoples and that the Chinese people will demand more freedom and say in government, and the CCP fears what this will mean for their control of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Countering Asia&amp;apos;s Axis of Authoritarianism\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktUDRKlHVwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CCP is threatened by American military power, but it&#8217;s most threatened by free expression and free peoples and that the Chinese people will demand more freedom and say in government, and the CCP fears what this will mean for their control of the country. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ktUDRKlHVwM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,89,272,355,314],"class_list":["post-23150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150","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=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23151,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions\/23151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}