{"id":1800,"date":"2021-10-21T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2021-10-22T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T06:21:51","slug":"china-slams-over-new-us-envoy-nominee-for-beijing-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/china\/china-slams-over-new-us-envoy-nominee-for-beijing-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"China slams US over  nominating Nicholas Burns as envoy for Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Ministry spokesman says Nicholas Burns remarks are full of the cold war and zero-sum mentality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, Oct. 21, (Asia Free Press): China on Thursday slammed US President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee to be Washington&#8217;s envoy for Beijing remarks and said Nicholas Burns statement was &#8220;full of cold war and zero-sum mentality&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the routine briefing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin opposed Nicholas Burns&#8217; remarks and said they were full of the cold war and zero-sum mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Burns took a tough line on dealings with China and said &#8220;genocide in Xinjiang,&#8221; abuses in Tibet, and bullying of Taiwan must stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We urge Burns to have an objective understanding of China&#8217;s actual situation, view China&#8217;s development and China-US relations in a rational way and never underestimate the strong determination of the Chinese people to defend their rights,&#8221; state-run Global Times quoted Wang Wenbin as saying.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Ministry spokesman says Nicholas Burns remarks are full of the cold war and zero-sum mentality BEIJING, Oct. 21, (Asia Free Press): China on Thursday slammed US President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee to be Washington&#8217;s envoy for Beijing remarks and said Nicholas Burns statement was &#8220;full of cold war and zero-sum mentality&#8221;. During the routine briefing, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396],"tags":[192,861,74,862],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","tag-china","tag-foreign-ministry-spokesman","tag-us","tag-wang-wenbin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}