{"id":385829,"date":"2018-11-20T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-vice-president-beats-war-drums-in-asia-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:18:18","slug":"us-vice-president-beats-war-drums-in-asia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-vice-president-beats-war-drums-in-asia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US vice president beats war drums in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US vice president beats war drums in Asia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>US Vice President Mike Pence used Asian summit meetings over the past week to set out an ultimatum to China that accelerates the drive to war. Either China bows to the demands of American imperialism and accepts a subservient, semi-colonial status, or it will confront the full force of US diplomatic, economic and ultimately military weight.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Pence accused China of taking \u201cadvantage of the United States for many, many years\u201d and declared \u201cthose days are over.\u201d He bluntly warned that \u201cthe US will not change course until China changes its ways\u201d and warned that the US could \u201cmore than double\u201d the existing massive tariffs on Chinese goods.<\/p>\n<p> Pence effectively ruled out any deal between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Argentina later this month. He told the <em>Washington Post<\/em> en route to Singapore that Xi had to come to the summit with \u201cconcrete proposals\u201d not just on the US trade deficit with China, but across a broad range of issues\u2014political and military as well as economic.<\/p>\n<p>Pence insisted that China had to \u201cchange its ways\u201d on alleged \u201cintellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, restricted access to Chinese markets, disrespect for international rules and norms, efforts to limit freedom of navigation in international waters and Chinese Communist Party interference in the politics of Western countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vice president\u2019s comments reprise the belligerent anti-China speech that he delivered in October that has set the tone of the Trump administration\u2019s intensifying confrontation with China. In effect, Washington is insisting that Beijing abandon plans to develop&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/20\/pers-n20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US vice president beats war drums in Asia By Peter Symonds 20 November 2018 US Vice President Mike Pence used Asian summit meetings over the past week to set out an ultimatum to China that accelerates the drive to war. Either China bows to the demands of American imperialism and accepts a subservient, semi-colonial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}