{"id":9156,"date":"2021-01-16T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118023\/vietnams-omission-chinese-foreign-ministers-southeast-asia"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:00:30","slug":"vietnams-omission-from-chinese-foreign-ministers-southeast-asia-tour-tells-a-story-observers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/vietnams-omission-from-chinese-foreign-ministers-southeast-asia-tour-tells-a-story-observers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s omission from Chinese foreign minister\u2019s Southeast Asia tour tells a story, observers say"},"content":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrapped up his latest trip to Southeast Asia on Saturday, during which he sought to stabilise relations in the region ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president. But of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Wang has visited in recent months, one was conspicuously missing: Vietnam.It is hardly a coincidence, according to diplomatic observers, as China has moved Asean up in its foreign policy priorities in recent\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118023\/vietnams-omission-chinese-foreign-ministers-southeast-asia\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrapped up his latest trip to Southeast Asia on Saturday, during which he sought to stabilise relations in the region ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president. But of the 10 member states of the Associatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"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\/9156"}],"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\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}