{"id":15049,"date":"2017-08-22T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2017-08-22T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:55:44","slug":"china-defends-pakistan-as-trumps-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15049","title":{"rendered":"China defends Pakistan as Trump\u2019s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, Aug 22 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0China defended its ally Pakistan on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could no longer be silent about Pakistan\u2019s \u201csafe havens\u201d for militants and warned it had much to lose by continuing to \u201charbor terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Trump\u2019s speech, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Pakistan was on the front line in the struggle against terrorism and had made \u201cgreat sacrifices\u201d and \u201cimportant contributions\u201d in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the international community should fully recognize Pakistan\u2019s anti-terrorism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy to see Pakistan and the United States carry out anti-terror cooperation on the basis of mutual respect, and work together for security and stability in the region and world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump committed the United States to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan, signaling he would dispatch more troops to America\u2019s longest war and vowing \u201ca fight to win\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump insisted that others \u2013 the Afghan government, Pakistan, India and NATO allies \u2013 step up their own commitment to resolving the 16-year conflict, but he saved his sharpest words for Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Senior U.S. officials warned security assistance for Pakistan could be reduced unless the nuclear-armed nation cooperated more in preventing militants from using safe havens on its soil. Pakistan denies allowing militants refuge on its territory, saying it takes action against all groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug 22 (TNS):\u00a0China defended its ally Pakistan on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could no longer be silent about Pakistan\u2019s \u201csafe havens\u201d for militants and warned it had much to lose by continuing to \u201charbor terrorists\u201d. Asked about Trump\u2019s speech, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Pakistan was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,19],"tags":[273,733],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing","category-world","tag-beijing","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15053,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions\/15053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}