{"id":18371,"date":"2021-08-17T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:11:22","slug":"decoding-the-deliberate-ambiguity-of-chinas-expanding-core-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18371","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the deliberate ambiguity of China\u2019s expanding core interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor years, safeguarding China\u2019s expanding national interests \u2013 especially its core concerns \u2013 has been something of a catchphrase for Chinese leaders and diplomats. But Beijing\u2019s decade-old definition of what constitutes its core interests and how they should be ranked hierarchically are studiously vague and seldom updated.The concept was first introduced to China\u2019s foreign policy in the early 2000s, as Beijing sought to persuade Washington to accommodate its ascendancy while avoiding the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3145326\/decoding-deliberate-ambiguity-chinas-expanding-core-interests?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor years, safeguarding China\u2019s expanding national interests \u2013 especially its core concerns \u2013 has been something of a catchphrase for Chinese leaders and diplomats.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}