{"id":78081,"date":"2025-11-04T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78081"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:10:39","slug":"china-backs-nigeria-warns-us-against-military-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/china-backs-nigeria-warns-us-against-military-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"China Backs Nigeria, Warns US Against Military Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China has urged the international community to respect Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty amid reports of a U.S. threat of military action.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning reaffirmed Beijing\u2019s support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration, commending Nigeria\u2019s pursuit of a development path suited to its national realities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Nigeria\u2019s strategic partner, China opposes any attempt by foreign powers to use religion or human rights as excuses to interfere in another country\u2019s internal affairs or issue military threats,\u201d Mao said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. had reportedly warned Nigeria of possible intervention over alleged persecution of Christians, with former President Donald Trump cited as threatening military action if the killings continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; China has urged the international community to respect Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty amid reports of a U.S. threat of military action. In a statement on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning reaffirmed Beijing\u2019s support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration, commending Nigeria\u2019s pursuit of a development path suited to its national realities. \u201cAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78083,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78081\/revisions\/78083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}