{"id":158381,"date":"2023-02-18T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T08:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/u-s-and-china-diplomats-communicating-but-not-militaries-white-house-says"},"modified":"2023-02-18T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T08:22:50","slug":"u-s-and-china-diplomats-communicating-but-not-militaries-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/u-s-and-china-diplomats-communicating-but-not-militaries-white-house-says","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and China diplomats communicating \u2014 but not militaries, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-and-china-diplomats-communicating-but-not-militaries-white-house-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) \u2014 U.S. diplomatic communications with China remain open after the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon this month, but contact between the countries\u2019 militaries \u201cunfortunately\u201d remains shut down, the White House said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said it was not the \u201cright time\u201d for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to travel to China after he postponed a Feb. 5\u20136 trip over the balloon episode, but President Joe Biden wanted to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping when it was \u201cappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby told a White House news briefing that U.S. and Chinese diplomats can still communicate despite tensions over the balloon incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) \u2014 U.S. diplomatic communications with China remain open after the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon this month, but contact between the countries\u2019 militaries \u201cunfortunately\u201d remains shut down, the White House said on Friday. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said it was not the \u201cright time\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}