{"id":132668,"date":"2025-07-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132668"},"modified":"2025-07-12T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:00:12","slug":"in-us-china-tug-of-war-australia-puts-itself-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132668","title":{"rendered":"In US-China tug of war, Australia puts itself first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor much of its history, Australia\u2019s identity has been defined by distance \u2013 geographical, political, psychological. Now, with global tensions rising, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is testing whether that distance might yet be a source of strength.<br \/>\nThe answer, he seems to believe, lies in recalibrating Australia\u2019s relationships with friends and rivals alike. As both critics from the political left and independent observers assail the cost and risks of Aukus \u2013 and the right demands ever-greater&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3317927\/us-china-tug-war-australia-puts-itself-first?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 PostFor much of its history, Australia\u2019s identity has been defined by distance \u2013 geographical, political, psychological. Now, with global tensions rising, Prime Minister Anthony&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\/132668"}],"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=132668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}