{"id":132741,"date":"2025-07-14T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132741"},"modified":"2025-07-14T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:00:08","slug":"european-union-on-the-ropes-as-trump-and-china-turn-the-screws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132741","title":{"rendered":"European Union on the ropes as Trump and China turn the screws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIf a week is a long time in politics, after a bruising fortnight of wrestling with the world\u2019s two superpowers, the European Union could be forgiven for thinking it has aged several decades.<br \/>\nA bruising encounter over Russia with China\u2019s top diplomat Wang Yi was followed by chaotic skirmishes on trade with the United States over the last week, as the EU scrambled to avoid being crushed between the duelling titans.<br \/>\nThe bad news for the bloc\u2019s bureaucrats is that they may have an even trickier few&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3318045\/european-union-ropes-donald-trump-and-china-turn-screws?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 PostIf a week is a long time in politics, after a bruising fortnight of wrestling with the world\u2019s two superpowers, the European Union could&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\/132741"}],"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=132741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}