{"id":411693,"date":"2021-04-23T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411693"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:24:15","slug":"china-rebukes-australia-for-cold-war-mentality-after-belt-and-road-accords-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-rebukes-australia-for-cold-war-mentality-after-belt-and-road-accords-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"China rebukes Australia for &#8220;Cold War mentality&#8221; after Belt and Road accords cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia said on Thursday that it cancelled two accords between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative because they were out of line with the federal government&#8217;s foreign policy, which sees a &#8220;free and open Indo Pacific&#8221; as a key goal.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded by urging Australia to abandon its &#8220;Cold War mentality and ideological bias&#8221; and &#8220;immediately correct its mistakes and change course&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese embassy earlier criticised the move by Foreign Minister Marise Payne to veto two agreements signed by Victoria state as &#8220;provocative&#8221; and said it would further damage ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia said on Thursday that it cancelled two accords between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative because they were out of line with the federal government&#8217;s foreign policy, which sees a &#8220;free and open Indo Pacific&#8221; as a key goal. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded by urging Australia to abandon its &#8220;Cold War mentality and ideological bias&#8221; and &#8220;immediately correct its mistakes and change course&#8221;. The Chinese embassy earlier criticised the move by Foreign Minister Marise Payne to veto two agreements signed by Victoria state as &#8220;provocative&#8221; and said it would further damage ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}