{"id":368674,"date":"2018-07-09T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senator-blames-china-for-north-koreas-rebuke\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:41:56","slug":"presstv-us-senator-blames-china-for-north-koreas-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senator-blames-china-for-north-koreas-rebuke\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US senator blames China for North Korea\u2019s rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Senator Lindsey Graham says China may have pressured North Korea to take a harder line against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the latest round of denuclearization talks in Pyongyang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see China\u2019s hands all over this. We\u2019re in a fight with China,&#8221; Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea, in a statement released Saturday hours after talks with Pompeo ended, called the negotiations \u201cregrettable\u201d and accused the US of making \u201cgangster-like\u201d demands for denuclearization.<\/p>\n<p>Graham placed blame for the North&#8217;s colder attitude on Chinese influence, saying that the outbreak of a trade dispute between Washington and Beijing was to blame for the antagonism.<\/p>\n<p>The tit-for-tat tariffs between the US and China have prompted global concern over the possibility of a trade war between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were President Trump, I would not let China use&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/09\/567575\/Senator-Lindsey-Graham-China-North-Korea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Lindsey Graham says China may have pressured North Korea to take a harder line against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the latest round of denuclearization talks in Pyongyang. &#8220;I see China\u2019s hands all over this. We\u2019re in a fight with China,&#8221; Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said in an interview with [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368674","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=368674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}