{"id":11576,"date":"2021-01-22T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118804\/hit-back-china-sanctions-us-republicans-tell-biden"},"modified":"2021-01-22T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:46:18","slug":"hit-back-at-china-us-republicans-tell-joe-biden-after-beijing-hits-american-officials-with-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/hit-back-at-china-us-republicans-tell-joe-biden-after-beijing-hits-american-officials-with-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit back at China, US Republicans tell Joe Biden after Beijing hits American officials with sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"Top Republicans have urged US President Joe Biden to take tougher action against China, after Beijing announced sanctions on outgoing American officials just minutes into Biden taking office.Jim Risch, head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted on Thursday that in sanctioning 28 national security officials, China\u2019s Communist Party was already testing the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cresolve to continue a tougher, competitive approach towards China\u201d.\u201cTogether, Republicans [and]\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118804\/hit-back-china-sanctions-us-republicans-tell-biden\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Republicans have urged US President Joe Biden to take tougher action against China, after Beijing announced sanctions on outgoing American officials just minutes into Biden taking office.Jim Risch, head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"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\/11576"}],"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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11606,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions\/11606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}