{"id":78110,"date":"2025-11-05T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78110"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:45:44","slug":"us-lawmaker-faults-china-over-comment-on-trumps-nigeria-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/us-lawmaker-faults-china-over-comment-on-trumps-nigeria-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"US Lawmaker Faults China Over Comment on Trump\u2019s Nigeria Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A US lawmaker, Riley Moore, has criticised China for warning Washington against possible military intervention in Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians, saying Beijing cannot dictate America\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X handle, Moore backed former President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to defend Christians in Nigeria, stressing that the US has a moral duty to protect religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is right to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ who face horrific persecution for their faith,\u201d he said, accusing China of hypocrisy over its human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>China had earlier cautioned the US against \u201cinterference in Nigeria\u2019s internal affairs,\u201d following Trump\u2019s comments, while reaffirming support for Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government has also urged Trump to respect the nation\u2019s territorial integrity and avoid any military provocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; A US lawmaker, Riley Moore, has criticised China for warning Washington against possible military intervention in Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians, saying Beijing cannot dictate America\u2019s foreign policy. In a post on his X handle, Moore backed former President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to defend Christians in Nigeria, stressing that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110","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=78110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78112,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110\/revisions\/78112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}