{"id":61484,"date":"2026-04-23T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61484"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:34:46","slug":"china-warns-middle-east-at-critical-juncture-after-trump-extends-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/china-warns-middle-east-at-critical-juncture-after-trump-extends-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"China Warns Middle East at \u2018Critical Juncture\u2019 After Trump Extends Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China warned on Wednesday that the situation in the Middle East was at a &#8220;critical juncture&#8221; after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire to allow Iran more time to negotiate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump indefinitely pushed back the end of the two-week truce on Tuesday with Tehran yet to respond but he said a US blockade of Iran&#8217;s ports would continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The current regional situation stands at a critical juncture transitioning between war and peace; the paramount priority remains to make every effort to prevent a resumption of hostilities,&#8221; Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a news briefing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guo did not comment directly on the ceasefire when asked about it, adding only that Beijing would continue to play a &#8220;constructive&#8221; role.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China warned on Wednesday that the situation in the Middle East was at a &#8220;critical juncture&#8221; after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire to allow Iran more time to negotiate. Trump indefinitely pushed back the end of the two-week truce on Tuesday with Tehran yet to respond but he said a US blockade of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61486,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61484\/revisions\/61486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}