{"id":6673,"date":"2021-11-26T17:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2021-11-26T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:43:36","slug":"bidens-diplomacy-push-meets-its-match-as-ethiopia-unravels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s diplomacy push meets its match as Ethiopia unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Visa bans. Trade restrictions. Threats of economic sanctions. And visit after visit from top emissaries, including a U.S. senator bearing a message from President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a year, U.S. officials have used&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/united-states-actions-to-press-for-the-resolution-of-the-crisis-in-the-tigray-region-of-ethiopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these and other instruments in their diplomacy toolbox<\/a>&nbsp;to persuade, push and pressure Ethiopia\u2019s government and rebel forces to end a vicious civil war believed to have killed thousands of people, left hundreds of thousands starving and displaced millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nothing is working. And things are getting worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/biden-ethiopia-diplomacy-519804\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/biden-ethiopia-diplomacy-519804<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Visa bans. Trade restrictions. Threats of economic sanctions. And visit after visit from top emissaries, including a U.S. senator bearing a message from President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>For a year, U.S. officials have used these and other instruments in their diplomacy toolbox to persuade, push and pressure Ethiopia\u2019s government and rebel forces to end a vicious civil war believed to have killed thousands of people, left hundreds of thousands starving and displaced millions.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing is working. And things are getting worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1416,1395,552,53,1093,272,355,314,780,158],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-atrocity","tag-civil-war","tag-conflict","tag-deaths","tag-ethiopia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","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=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}