{"id":8218,"date":"2021-01-14T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117759\/china-looks-boost-ties-philippines-ahead-biden-inauguration"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:30:12","slug":"china-looks-to-boost-ties-with-philippines-ahead-of-biden-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/china-looks-to-boost-ties-with-philippines-ahead-of-biden-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"China looks to boost ties with Philippines ahead of Biden inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be looking to reinforce Beijing\u2019s ties with Manila during a two-day visit to the Philippines this week, observers say.His trip comes just a week ahead of the inauguration of US president-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to breath new life into Washington\u2019s Asia policy.Wang is set to arrive in the Philippines on Friday as part of a week-long trip to Southeast Asia that also included stops in Myanmar and Indonesia. He is expected to meet Philippine Foreign\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117759\/china-looks-boost-ties-philippines-ahead-biden-inauguration\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be looking to reinforce Beijing\u2019s ties with Manila during a two-day visit to the Philippines this week, observers say.His trip comes just a week ahead of the inauguration of US president-elect Joe Biden, who is exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"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\/8218"}],"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\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}