{"id":24406,"date":"2026-10-21T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/zalmay-khalilzad-china-asia-us-india-strategic-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:15:14","slug":"zalmay-khalilzad-china-asia-us-india-strategic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/zalmay-khalilzad-china-asia-us-india-strategic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmay Khalilzad: China&#8217;s bid to dominate Asia has strengthened US-India strategic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, said on his personal account on the social media platform X that China\u2019s efforts to dominate Asia and become the world\u2019s leading power are the main factor strengthening strategic relations between the United States and India.<\/p>\n<p>In a post, he referred to recent remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said Washington and New Delhi are completely aligned on the key issues of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad added that China\u2019s aspiration to attain the position of the world\u2019s pre-eminent power is a shared threat to the United States and India, and that this is the reason for the two countries drawing closer in the strategic sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad says China&#8217;s push to dominate Asia has deepened strategic ties between the US and India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}