{"id":296549,"date":"2023-09-06T16:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=296549"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:42:03","slug":"asean-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/asean-summit\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN Summit: Issues in Myanmar and China overshadow discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The political crisis in Myanmar and China\u2019s increasing aggressiveness are overshadowing the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, opened in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesian President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joko_Widodo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joko_Widodo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joko Widodo<\/a>, told his fellow leaders in the 10-member regional bloc that ASEAN has agreed not to be a proxy to any power, adding that they must become captains of their own ship to achieve peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASEAN has been prevented in its attempts to resolve the crisis in Myanmar, which has been mired in chaos since the military overthrew the democratically-elected government of leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The junta agreed to a five-point consensus crafted by ASEAN just months after the coup, which includes an immediate end to the violence, peace talks between the junta and its opponents and the delivery of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\">More Stories Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: VOA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political crisis in Myanmar and China\u2019s increasing aggressiveness are overshadowing the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, opened in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Indonesian President Joko Widodo, told his fellow leaders in the 10-member regional bloc that ASEAN has agreed not to be a proxy to any power, adding that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":296550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Summit-scaled.webp?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296551,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296549\/revisions\/296551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}