{"id":5911,"date":"2024-07-26T18:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2024-07-26T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:42:50","slug":"china-russia-say-to-counter-extra-regional-forces-in-se-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-russia-say-to-counter-extra-regional-forces-in-se-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Russia say to counter &#8216;extra-regional forces&#8217; in SE Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>China and Russia&#8217;s foreign ministers met their Southeast Asian counterparts Friday after vowing to counter &#8220;extra-regional forces&#8221;, a day before Washington&#8217;s top diplomat was due to arrive.<br \/>\nWang Yi and Sergei Lavrov were attending a three-day meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc in the Laos capital Vientiane.<\/p>\n<p>Both held talks with counterparts from the bloc, while Wang also met with new British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Wang and Lavrov agreed to work together in &#8220;countering any attempts by extra-regional forces to interfere in Southeast Asian affairs&#8221;, according to Moscow&#8217;s foreign ministry.<br \/>\nThey also discussed implementing &#8220;a new security architecture&#8221; in Eurasia, Lavrov said in a statement, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>According to a readout from Chinese state news agency Xinhua, Wang said Beijing was &#8220;ready to work with Russia to&#8230; firmly support each other, safeguard each other&#8217;s core interests&#8221;.<br \/>\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to arrive in Vientiane on Saturday morning for talks with ASEAN foreign ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and Russia&#8217;s foreign ministers met their Southeast Asian counterparts Friday after vowing to counter &#8220;extra-regional forces&#8221;, a day before Washington&#8217;s top diplomat was due to arrive. Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov were attending a three-day meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc in the Laos capital Vientiane. Both held talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}