{"id":26008,"date":"2011-05-04T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/china_swings_to_defense_of_pakistan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:15:06","slug":"china_swings_to_defense_of_pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26008","title":{"rendered":"China Swings to the Defense of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Tuesday stood by its ally Pakistan amid growing questions in the U.S. about whether the country was complicit in harboring Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader killed in a sprawling mansion in a garrison city close to Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an outpouring of discussion on the Chinese Internet revealed mixed views of bin Laden. Many users said the world was safer following his killing while others\u201d\u201dincluding some prominent social and political commentators\u201d\u201dexpressed sympathy, and even respect, for the mastermind of the World Trade Center attacks.<\/p>\n<p>After hailing bin Laden&#8217;s death as a &#8220;positive development in the international struggle against terrorism,&#8221; the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday swung to the defense of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704740604576301112983040114.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Tuesday stood by its ally Pakistan amid growing questions in the U.S. about whether the country was complicit in harboring Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader killed in a sprawling mansion in a garrison city close to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26008\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,201,502,143,144,343,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-china","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}