{"id":53691,"date":"2019-01-29T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=53691"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:08:41","slug":"japan-pm-shinzo-abe-vows-to-step-up-china-ties-but-bolster-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/japan-pm-shinzo-abe-vows-to-step-up-china-ties-but-bolster-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM Shinzo Abe vows to step up China ties but bolster defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to further expand Japan\u2019s already improving ties with China but stressed the need to bolster defence capability as far as space amid concern about China\u2019s military activity.<\/p>\n<p>Abe\u2019s comments came in a policy speech at the start of the parliamentary session Monday. He said bilateral relations have returned to \u201cnormal\u201d since he visited Beijing in October and that Japan wants to further elevate Japanese-Chinese cooperation in trade and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>He said Japan, however, needs to expand its defence capability against the potential threat of space and cyber wars as China rapidly advances its aerospace technology.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to further expand Japan\u2019s already improving ties with China but stressed the need to bolster defence capability as far as space amid concern about China\u2019s military activity. Abe\u2019s comments came in a policy speech at the start of the parliamentary session Monday. He said bilateral relations have returned to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53693,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691\/revisions\/53693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}