{"id":38809,"date":"2019-04-05T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38809"},"modified":"2019-04-05T03:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:22:39","slug":"china-is-becoming-an-election-issue-in-asia-and-thats-bad-news-for-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38809","title":{"rendered":"China is becoming an election issue in Asia. And that&#8217;s bad news for Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Two years ago, Indonesian President Joko Widodo &#8212; also known as Jokowi &#8212; stood shoulder to shoulder with Xi Jinping for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/russian-president-vladimir-putin-chinese-president-xi-news-photo\/683197346\" target=\"_blank\">group photo<\/a> to celebrate the Chinese leader&#8217;s Belt and Road project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Yet now, as Jokowi seeks re-election, he appears to be distancing himself from Beijing and downplaying the importance of Chinese-funded projects in Indonesia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It&#8217;s a pattern emerging across southeast Asia and beyond, and one that will be of great concern for Beijing as Chinese investment and ties become an awkward &#8212; if not downright toxic &#8212; election issue. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Two years ago, Indonesian President Joko Widodo &#8212; also known as Jokowi &#8212; stood shoulder to shoulder with Xi Jinping for a group photo to celebrate the Chinese leader&#8217;s Belt and Road project.Yet now, as Jokowi seeks re-election, he appears to be distancing himself from Beijing and downplaying the importance of Chinese-funded projects&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38809","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\/38809","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=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}