{"id":11444,"date":"2014-05-22T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2014-05-22T01:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:16:20","slug":"time-to-draw-red-line-for-china-u-s-former-deputy-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/22\/time-to-draw-red-line-for-china-u-s-former-deputy-sec\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to draw red line for China \u2013 U.S. former deputy sec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11448\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-line.jpg\" alt=\"red line\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-line.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-line-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the recent visit of United States President Barrack Obama in Asia and the signing\u00a0of a US-Philippines defense pact, tensions have been rising between the two countries\u00a0and China.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the conflicts, former deputy secretary of state in the first Obama administration\u00a0said in an interview with The Nikkei in Tokyo last Wednesday that it is important for the\u00a0U.S. to set a clear &#8220;red line&#8221; to prevent any miscalculation by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt [Obama\u2019s recent trip to Asia] was important, given the questions about the sustained\u00a0commitment to the rebalance, for the president to come to the region and reiterate his\u00a0continued commitment to this basic strategic orientation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there had been so many other events, in Ukraine and the Middle East, that\u00a0there have been some questions in the region about whether that commitment remains\u00a0a priority for the U.S. The most important part of the trip was simply to reiterate, in a\u00a0very concrete way that sustained commitment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More friction between US and China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Associated Press has recently reported that the indictment of five\u00a0Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between\u00a0China and US.<\/p>\n<p>A wanted poster was displayed at Washington\u2019s justice department last Monday after\u00a0several district attorneys and an FBI executive participated in a news conference saying\u00a0that the US jury charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade theft.<\/p>\n<p>The important question then is that, even after clearing its intentions and drawing the\u00a0line for China, will the two countries relation ever be mended?<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Nikkei Asian Review and Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent visit of United States President Barrack Obama in Asia and the signing\u00a0of a US-Philippines defense pact, tensions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[420,406,352],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-china","tag-united-states","tag-us","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}