{"id":44031,"date":"2018-06-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/06\/us-china-relations-deteriorating-fast-over-flashpoint-issues\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"us-china-relations-deteriorating-fast-over-flashpoint-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44031","title":{"rendered":"US-China relations deteriorating fast over flashpoint issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes over South China Sea, Taiwan and trade have plunged Trump and Xi into the diplomatic deep freezeChina\u2019s expanding efforts to impose its will on neighbours through diplomatic, commercial and military pressure \u2013 the so-called Xi doctrine \u2013 have drawn the sharpest riposte to date from the Trump administration, with Taiwan once again the main flashpoint in a sea of accelerating Sino-American rivalry. Following recent verbal clashes over US \u201cfreedom of navigation\u201d patrols in disputed South China Sea waters, officials in Washington say they plan to send a US aircraft carrier battlegroup into the Taiwan Strait separating the island from mainland China. The move was in response to China\u2019s military \u201cturning up the heat\u201d on Taiwan, an official said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/06\/us-china-relations-deteriorating-fast-taiwan-trade\" target=\"_blank\">US-China relations deteriorating fast over flashpoint issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes over South China Sea, Taiwan and trade have plunged Trump and Xi into the diplomatic deep freezeChina\u2019s expanding efforts to impose its will on neighbours through diplomatic, commercial and military pressure \u2013 the so-called Xi doctrine \u2013 have drawn the sharpest riposte to date from the Trump administration, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}