{"id":131634,"date":"2025-06-23T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131634"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:00:08","slug":"should-taiwan-worry-about-the-us-being-bogged-down-in-the-mideast-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131634","title":{"rendered":"Should Taiwan worry about the US being bogged down in the Mideast again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US war in the Middle East could leave its armed forces stretched too thin to respond swiftly to a Taiwan Strait crisis, analysts on the island warned after the US launched multiple precision strikes on nuclear-related sites in Iran on the weekend.<br \/>\nWhile US President Donald Trump was quick to describe the operation as a \u201cvery successful attack\u201d, defence analysts and lawmakers in Taipei suggested that American attention could be diverted from the Taiwan Strait.<br \/>\nTheir core concern: that the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3315517\/should-taiwan-worry-about-us-being-bogged-down-mideast-again?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US war in the Middle East could leave its armed forces stretched too thin to respond swiftly to a Taiwan Strait crisis, analysts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/131634"}],"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=131634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}