{"id":9425,"date":"2014-03-08T19:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2014-03-08T19:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:41:58","slug":"china-will-never-support-putin-on-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/china-will-never-support-putin-on-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"China will never support Putin on Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offering the people of Crimea a referendum &#8212; on whether to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation &#8212; may appeal to Vladimir Putin but he should not expect support from China. For two very simple reasons: Hong Kong and Taiwan. China claims these two territories as part of China, but there are no prizes for guessing the outcome if a similar referendum (to secede) were held in either territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering the people of Crimea a referendum &#8212; on whether to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation &#8212; may appeal to Vladimir Putin but he should not expect support from China. For two very simple reasons: Hong Kong and Taiwan. 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