{"id":11232,"date":"2021-01-21T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118713\/biden-stirs-optimism-and-hope-asia-korean-and-singaporean"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:30:15","slug":"biden-stirs-optimism-and-hope-in-asia-with-korean-and-singaporean-leaders-singing-his-praises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/biden-stirs-optimism-and-hope-in-asia-with-korean-and-singaporean-leaders-singing-his-praises\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden stirs \u2018optimism and hope\u2019 in Asia, with Korean and Singaporean leaders singing his praises"},"content":{"rendered":"US President Joe Biden\u2019s appeal to Americans in his inauguration speech to end their \u201cuncivil war\u201d of political division had a domestic focus, but observers say his inclusive message and even-tempered tones will have deep resonance in Asia \u2013 where leaders are eager to quickly put the chaos of the last four years behind them.That sense of relief about Biden\u2019s succession of his mercurial predecessor, Donald Trump, was evident in social media messages posted by regional leaders after the one-of-a\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118713\/biden-stirs-optimism-and-hope-asia-korean-and-singaporean\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden\u2019s appeal to Americans in his inauguration speech to end their \u201cuncivil war\u201d of political division had a domestic focus, but observers say his inclusive message and even-tempered tones will have deep resonance in Asia \u2013 where lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1108,"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\/11232"}],"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\/1108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}