{"id":525,"date":"2023-02-01T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=525"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:18:22","slug":"china-seeks-stronger-economic-ties-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/china-seeks-stronger-economic-ties-with-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"China seeks stronger economic ties with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>China&#8217;s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang wants to build stronger ties with Saudi Arabia and set up a China-Gulf free trade zone &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;, according to a ministry statement published late on Monday as reported by Reuters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qin, who was recently appointed to the position, made the suggestion in a telephone conversation with his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, adding that China highly appreciates Saudi&#8217;s consistent support on issues involving China&#8217;s core interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the sides should further expand cooperation on economy, trade, energy, infrastructure, investment, finance and high technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Faisal said that Saudi Arabia regards relations with China as an important cornerstone of foreign relations, and fully adheres to the one-China principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang wants to build stronger ties with Saudi Arabia and set up a China-Gulf free trade zone &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;, according to a ministry statement published late on Monday as reported by Reuters. Qin, who was recently appointed to the position, made the suggestion in a telephone conversation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}