{"id":9371,"date":"2021-01-17T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117704\/south-korea-caught-middle-china-us-whales-face"},"modified":"2021-01-17T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:00:10","slug":"south-korea-caught-in-the-middle-as-china-us-whales-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/south-korea-caught-in-the-middle-as-china-us-whales-face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea caught in the middle as China, US \u2018whales\u2019 face off"},"content":{"rendered":"The Korean peninsula has a long history of dealing with invasion and foreign rule, wedged as it is between larger powers Russia, China and Japan. That experience gave rise to a proverb in the country: \u201cWhen whales fight, it\u2019s the shrimp\u2019s back that gets broken.\u201dSouth Korea \u2013 itself the result of a war 70 years ago that drew in the US and China and split the peninsula into two Koreas \u2013 is hardly a shrimp by economic measures, being home to industrial heavyweights like Samsung Group and Hyundai\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117704\/south-korea-caught-middle-china-us-whales-face\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korean peninsula has a long history of dealing with invasion and foreign rule, wedged as it is between larger powers Russia, China and Japan. That experience gave rise to a proverb in the country: \u201cWhen whales fight, it\u2019s the shrimp\u2019s back that get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"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\/9371"}],"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\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9372,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions\/9372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}