{"id":40734,"date":"2021-10-04T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40734"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:11:24","slug":"congratulations-to-prime-minister-of-japan-kishida-fumio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40734","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>10\/04\/2021 10:19 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>I congratulate Kishida Fumio on his election by the Diet as the next Prime Minister of Japan. \u00a0I had the opportunity to work with Kishida-san when he was Japan\u2019s Foreign Minister and I was the Deputy Secretary of State. \u00a0I am grateful for the prime minister\u2019s friendship and his commitment to advancing the shared priorities of our two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The United States thanks former Prime Minister Suga for his work to strengthen the enduring U.S.-Japan Alliance and for his efforts in advancing our cooperation.\u00a0 Our partnership demonstrates that when free and democratic nations work together we can address global threats \u2014 such as COVID-19 and the climate crisis \u2014 while defending and reinforcing the free and open rules-based international order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/04\/2021 10:19 AM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40735,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734\/revisions\/40735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}