{"id":2481,"date":"2017-09-05T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2017-09-05T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:44:09","slug":"will-nuclear-test-force-chinese-rethink-on-north-korea-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/will-nuclear-test-force-chinese-rethink-on-north-korea-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Will nuclear test force Chinese rethink on North Korea? &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/04\/asia\/north-korea-china\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/926\/files\/2017\/09\/170905095134-xi-kim-split-super-tease.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Beijing (CNN)China &#8212; North Korea&#8217;s only global ally and biggest trading partner &#8212; has put on a stoic face since Pyongyang successfully conducted its sixth nuclear test Sunday.President Xi Jinping didn&#8217;t mention his country&#8217;s unruly neighbor at all in his closing address at the BRICS summit of emerging economies Tuesday, or in earlier speeches, although a communique issued by the group expressed deep concern and called for the crisis to be settled peacefully.But the test of a hydrogen bomb couldn&#8217;t have sat well with China&#8217;s leader.It&#8217;s the third time in one year that North Korea has overshadowed a major Chinese event &#8212; previous missile tests coincided with the unveiling of Xi&#8217;s global economic blueprint at his Belt and Road summit in May and the G20, which China hosted last September.&#8221;The Chinese have been pressing North Korea very hard not to stage a nuclear test,&#8221; said Mike Chinoy, a former CNN Beijing bureau chief and the author of &#8220;Meltdown: Inside the story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.&#8221;&#8221;For the North Koreans to deliberately choose a few hours before a very important summit meeting when Xi Jinping is hosting the leaders from India, Brazil and South Africa &#8212; a big, big deal for the Chinese &#8212; is a deliberate poke in the eye from North Korea.&#8221;The weapon that makes North Korea more dangerous 01:12<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/04\/asia\/north-korea-china\/index.html\">Will nuclear test force Chinese rethink on North Korea? &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)China &#8212; North Korea&#8217;s only global ally and biggest trading partner &#8212; has put on a stoic face since Pyongyang successfully conducted its sixth nuclear test Sunday.President Xi Jinping didn&#8217;t mention his country&#8217;s unruly neighbor at all in his closing address at the BRICS summit of emerging economies Tuesday, or in earlier speeches, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}