{"id":468056,"date":"2021-05-03T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=468056"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:51:10","slug":"secy-of-state-our-purpose-is-not-to-hold-china-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-of-state-our-purpose-is-not-to-hold-china-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Secy. of State: Our purpose is not to hold China back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecy-of-state-our-purpose-is-not-to-hold-china-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=468056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2403965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2403965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, not pictured, at Downing Street in London, Monday, May 3, 2021, during the G7 foreign ministers meeting. (Ben Stansall\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:45 PM PT \u2013 Monday, May 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said America \u201cdoes not have the luxury of not dealing with China.\u201d During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6in8fx1Tc38\">interview <\/a>on Sunday, he highlighted the threat China poses while calling it the \u201cone country in the world that has the capacity to undermine or challenge international order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the Biden administration is unprepared for a confrontation with Beijing. Blinken noted the country has become increasingly hostile over the last few years, but said the White House\u2019s goal is not necessarily policing China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down,\u201d stated the official. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI want to be very clear about something,\u201d says Secretary of State Antony Blinken. \u201cOur purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/og55Ozf20D\">https:\/\/t.co\/og55Ozf20D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r5CNDrgb0J\">pic.twitter.com\/r5CNDrgb0J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/60Minutes\/status\/1388993597442244608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken went on to say it\u2019s \u201cprofoundly against the interests\u201d of China and the U.S. to engage in a military conflict.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/susan-wright-heading-to-runoff-election-for-texas-congressional-seat-previously-held-by-late-husband\/\">Susan Wright Heading To Runoff Election For Texas Congressional Seat Previously Held By Late Husband<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, not pictured, at Downing Street in London, Monday, May 3, 2021, during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"Secy. of State: Our purpose is not to hold China back","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6in8fx1Tc38","fifu_image_alt":"Secy. of State: Our purpose is not to hold China back","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}