{"id":616,"date":"2004-01-15T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2004-01-15T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T16:13:00","slug":"616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKS MILITARY TIES WITH CHINA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Overshadowed by the controversy over the invasion of Iraq have been Bush administration efforts to improve ties with Russia and China, a policy that paid dividends when President Putin recently reversed course on the need for intensive IAEA inspections in Iran, a  longtime customer for Russian nuclear hardware and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly the United States has been exploring expanding <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.tbo.com\/ap\/breaking\/MGAR7ZYUGPD.html\">military ties with Beijing<\/a>, incidentally or intentionally shoring up the waning position of Jiang Zemin in China&#8217;s political hierarchy.  The former president and Communist party chief still retains supreme control over Chinese military affairs despite having grudgingly vacated the other two &#8221; power posts &#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKS MILITARY TIES WITH CHINA Overshadowed by the controversy over the invasion of Iraq have been Bush administration efforts to improve ties with Russia and China, a policy that paid dividends when President Putin recently reversed course on the need for intensive IAEA inspections in Iran, a longtime customer for Russian nuclear hardware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}