{"id":25492,"date":"2018-12-14T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25492"},"modified":"2018-12-14T03:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:23:31","slug":"bolton-slams-china-russia-over-predatory-practices-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25492","title":{"rendered":"Bolton slams China, Russia over &#8216;predatory practices&#8217; in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN)<\/cite>National security adviser John Bolton unveiled President Donald Trump&#8217;s Africa strategy on Thursday, outlining a plan that he said focuses heavily on countering China and Russia&#8217;s expanding influence across the region, while also making sure US taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly with a reduction in US involvement in United Nations peacekeeping missions.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bolton emphasized that America&#8217;s vision for the region is &#8220;one of independence, self-reliance, and growth &#8212; not dependency, domination, and debt.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">However, the plan is also likely to result in additional cuts to aid and peacekeeping programs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN)National security adviser John Bolton unveiled President Donald Trump&#8217;s Africa strategy on Thursday, outlining a plan that he said focuses heavily on countering China and Russia&#8217;s expanding influence across the region, while also making sure US taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly with a reduction in US involvement in United Nations peacekeeping missions. Bolton emphasized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}