{"id":10392,"date":"2021-01-19T18:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118397\/joe-biden-taps-asia-expert-ely-ratner-top-pentagon"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:14:29","slug":"joe-biden-taps-asia-expert-ely-ratner-as-top-pentagon-adviser-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/joe-biden-taps-asia-expert-ely-ratner-as-top-pentagon-adviser-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden taps Asia expert Ely Ratner as top Pentagon adviser on China"},"content":{"rendered":"This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman on politico.com on January 19, 2021.US president-elect Joe Biden has tapped former aide and long-time Asia expert Ely Ratner to be the incoming Pentagon chief\u2019s principal adviser on China matters, according to two people with knowledge of the move.The move may help reassure China watchers who are concerned that Biden's defence secretary nominee, retired general Lloyd Austin, does not have\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118397\/joe-biden-taps-asia-expert-ely-ratner-top-pentagon\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Lara Seligman on politico.com on January 19, 2021.US president-elect Joe Biden has tapped former aide and long-time Asia expert Ely Ratner to be the incoming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10393,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}