{"id":136907,"date":"2025-09-21T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136907"},"modified":"2025-09-21T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:00:10","slug":"does-trumps-push-for-afghan-air-base-risk-inflaming-us-china-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136907","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump\u2019s push for Afghan air base risk inflaming US-China rivalry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s push to retake Afghanistan\u2019s Bagram Air Base, framed as a response to China\u2019s nuclear build-up in Xinjiang, risks destabilising an already fragile region and could once again turn the war-torn nation into a flashpoint in the US-China rivalry, observers warn.<br \/>\nThe historic Soviet-built base is located roughly 70km (43 miles) north of Kabul and less than 800km from Afghanistan\u2019s border with the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in western China. It was America\u2019s largest&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3326260\/will-trumps-push-afghan-air-base-create-new-flashpoint-us-china-rivalry?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 PostUS President Donald Trump\u2019s push to retake Afghanistan\u2019s Bagram Air Base, framed as a response to China\u2019s nuclear build-up in Xinjiang, risks destabilising an&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\/136907"}],"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=136907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}