{"id":11711,"date":"2021-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11711"},"modified":"2021-06-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T06:00:00","slug":"us-may-have-to-keep-china-guessing-over-taiwan-says-former-nato-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11711","title":{"rendered":"US may have to keep China guessing over Taiwan, says former Nato commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US will find it hard to change its deliberate ambiguity over whether it will come to Taiwan\u2019s defence, a former Nato commander has said.<\/p>\n<p>The US has long refrained from outlining how it would respond in a potential war between Taiwan and mainland China in the hope that the uncertainty will force Beijing to stay cautious and discourage Taipei from declaring independence.<\/p>\n<p>James Stavridis, a retired US Navy admiral who was Nato\u2019s supreme allied commander in Europe between 2009 and 2013,\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3137058\/us-may-have-keep-china-guessing-over-taiwan-says-former-nato?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US will find it hard to change its deliberate ambiguity over whether it will come to Taiwan\u2019s defence, a former Nato commander has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711"}],"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=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}