{"id":200310,"date":"2020-01-04T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200310"},"modified":"2020-01-07T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T07:58:47","slug":"china-on-soleimani-killing-us-should-not-abuse-military-power-we-are-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200310","title":{"rendered":"China on Soleimani killing: US should not abuse military power, we are watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 Jan 4, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_200262\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200262\" class=\"wp-image-200262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike-768x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/A-burning-vehicle-at-Baghdad-International-Airport-shotly-after-the-US-drone-strike.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-200262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burning vehicle at Baghdad International Airport shotly after the US drone strike. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Washington\u2019s Iran policy is counterproductive and the killing of Qassem Soleimani is an abuse of US military force, a senior Chinese diplomat said in a call with Tehran, adding Beijing will play a \u201cconstructive\u201d role in the Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed that his nation opposes the use of military force after hearing from his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif, who condemned the US\u2019 targeted assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani on Friday. Wang stressed that the US operation was a breach of international norms and threatened to significantly increase turbulence in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Trump administration\u2019s strategy of maximum pressure against Tehran was impractical, the Chinese diplomat added, promising that Beijing will hold an objective and fair position necessary to improve the situation in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A similar position was voiced by Russia\u2019s Sergey Lavrov, who spoke to Zarif on Saturday to express Russia\u2019s condolences over the killing of Soleimani. American behavior fails to address the many problems in the Middle East and only escalates regional tensions, the two diplomats agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force, was killed in a targeted assassination, which Washington claims was necessary to prevent attacks on American citizens. Tehran vowed it would avenge the death of the popular general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/477468-china-us-abuse-force-soleimani\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has warned that U.S. policy on Iran is counter-productive and could lead to an escalation of conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200313,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200310\/revisions\/200313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}