{"id":3399,"date":"2013-10-14T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:18:49","slug":"china-state-media-blasts-us-shutdown-calls-for-a-de-americanized-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/10\/china-state-media-blasts-us-shutdown-calls-for-a-de-americanized-world\/","title":{"rendered":"China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a &#8216;de-Americanized&#8217; world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3400\" alt=\"china-flag-650\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650-400x264.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/china-flag-650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With days to go before the United States debt default deadline, Beijing aired its frustrations with the shutdown Sunday, saying it was time to consider a \u201cde-Americanized\u201d world order.<\/p>\n<p>With $1.28 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, China is easily the biggest foreign holder of American debt.<\/p>\n<p>China has also funneled billions of dollars into\u00a0private American investments \u2013 to the tune of an estimated $54 billion in 2012 alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world,\u201d according to a stinging op-ed article by state news agency, Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthewall.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/10\/14\/20957509-china-state-media-blasts-us-shutdown-calls-for-a-de-americanized-world?lite\" target=\"_blank\">China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a de-Americanized world &#8211; Behind The Wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With days to go before the United States debt default deadline, Beijing aired its frustrations with the shutdown Sunday, saying it was time to consider a \u201cde-Americanized\u201d world order. With $1.28 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, China is easily the biggest foreign holder of American debt. China has also funneled billions of dollars into\u00a0private American investments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22],"tags":[24,191,69,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}