{"id":9451,"date":"2021-01-17T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118100\/beijing-hopes-germany-will-continue-china-friendly-approach"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:01:58","slug":"beijing-hopes-germany-will-continue-china-friendly-approach-after-armin-laschet-wins-christian-democrat-union-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/beijing-hopes-germany-will-continue-china-friendly-approach-after-armin-laschet-wins-christian-democrat-union-leadership-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing hopes Germany will continue China-friendly approach after  Armin Laschet wins Christian Democrat Union leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"The choice of Armin Laschet as leader of Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union has been seen as a promising development by Beijing, observers say, raising hopes that he will continue to adopt a pragmatic approach to China if he succeeds her as chancellor.While the choice of the minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia does not guarantee that he will be the centre-right\u2019s candidate for chancellor at the election later this year, diplomatic observers in China said Beijing saw it as a\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118100\/beijing-hopes-germany-will-continue-china-friendly-approach\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of Armin Laschet as leader of Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union has been seen as a promising development by Beijing, observers say, raising hopes that he will continue to adopt a pragmatic approach to China if he succeeds her as cha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"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\/9451"}],"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\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}