{"id":284562,"date":"2016-12-14T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-hostility-towards-china-risks-major-retaliation-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:34:55","slug":"us-hostility-towards-china-risks-major-retaliation-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-hostility-towards-china-risks-major-retaliation-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US hostility towards China risks major retaliation: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The current and incoming US administrations seem to share the same hostile policies towards China, says an American analyst, warning that Beijing might decide to hit back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, author and political commentator James \u00a0Petras said he doubted that US President-elect Donald Trump would deviate from President Barack Obama\u2019s harsh rhetoric against China.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks shortly after Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command, warned China against \u201caggressive behavior in the South China Sea,\u201d where the US has been trying to curb China\u2019s growing influence.<\/p>\n<p>China claims sovereignty over most of the sea but those claims have been challenged by other countries neighboring the waters, which act as a gateway for trillions of dollars in annual maritime trade.<\/p>\n<p>The commander\u2019s warning came days after Trump struck a nerve in Beijing by by talking to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Trump further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/14\/497915\/US-Trump-Harris-South-China-Sea-Petras\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current and incoming US administrations seem to share the same hostile policies towards China, says an American analyst, warning that Beijing might decide to hit back. Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, author and political commentator James \u00a0Petras said he doubted that US President-elect Donald Trump would deviate from President Barack Obama\u2019s harsh rhetoric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}