{"id":10709,"date":"2021-06-02T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:03:37","slug":"japan-likely-to-defend-taiwan-if-beijing-makes-moves-former-us-national-security-official-matt-pottinger-saysunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10709","title":{"rendered":"Japan likely to defend Taiwan if Beijing makes moves, former US national security official Matt Pottinger saysUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostTokyo would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing moved to reunify the island with mainland China by force, former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger said in a panel discussion on Tuesday with other top Trump administration officials.Pottinger, considered one of the key architects of the Trump administration\u2019s hardline China policies, said Japan first suggested a quadrilateral alliance with the US, India and Australia \u2013 now known as the \u201cQuad\u201d \u2013 as a defence strategy\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3135828\/japan-likely-defend-taiwan-if-beijing-makes-moves-former-national?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostTokyo would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing moved to reunify the island with mainland China by force, former&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}