{"id":1255056,"date":"2023-10-09T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=296983"},"modified":"2023-10-09T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:59:54","slug":"humor-in-the-headlines-over-china-in-latin-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/09\/humor-in-the-headlines-over-china-in-latin-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor in the Headlines Over China in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a break from its hysterical coverage of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, the Washington Post \u2013 house organ of the Democratic National Committee \u2013 cautions us of the other menace, China. \u201cWhen the leader of this impoverished Central American country visited Beijing in June,\u201d we are warned, \u201cChina laid out the warmest of welcomes.\u201d Apparently, in a grave threat to US national security, the president of Honduras attended a state banquet and actually ate Chinse food. What next for the country the Post affectionately describes as \u201clong among the most docile of US regional partners\u201d? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/humor-in-the-headlines-over-china-in-latin-america\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/humor-in-the-headlines-over-china-in-latin-america\/\">Humor in the Headlines Over China in Latin America<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/humor-in-the-headlines-over-china-in-latin-america\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a break from its hysterical coverage of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, the Washington Post \u2013 house organ of the Democratic National Committee \u2013 cautions us of the other menace, China. \u201cWhen the leader of this impoverished Central Amer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255056"}],"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\/672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258685,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255056\/revisions\/1258685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}