{"id":9643,"date":"2021-01-18T06:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118152\/moon-jae-says-south-korea-will-not-take-sides-us-china-rivalry"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:16:21","slug":"moon-jae-in-says-south-korea-will-not-take-sides-in-us-china-rivalry-focuses-on-xi-jinpings-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/moon-jae-in-says-south-korea-will-not-take-sides-in-us-china-rivalry-focuses-on-xi-jinpings-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Jae-in says South Korea will not take sides in US-China rivalry, focuses on Xi Jinping\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday underscored the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s upcoming visit to the country, making clear that Seoul would not naturally take the side of its traditional ally Washington in its rivalry with Beijing.\r\rMoon\u2019s remarks, made to journalists convened for his first press conference of the year, came as his foreign policy and security adviser said last week that Seoul would likely come under pressure from the incoming US administration in a\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3118152\/moon-jae-says-south-korea-will-not-take-sides-us-china-rivalry\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday underscored the importance of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s upcoming visit to the country, making clear that Seoul would not naturally take the side of its traditional ally Washington in its rivalry with Be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"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\/9643"}],"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\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}