{"id":137709,"date":"2025-10-03T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137709"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:51:54","slug":"europe-hunts-for-chokepoints-it-can-weaponise-in-a-new-age-of-economic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137709","title":{"rendered":"Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise in a new age of economic warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostEU officials are scouring the continent for levers they can pull to inflict maximum pain on others, as they look to survive in a world in which allies and partners are weaponising Europe\u2019s own dependencies at an alarming rate.<br \/>\nTrade bureaucrats are building a database of potential chokepoints that can be squeezed as deterrents or reactions to bullying by other powers, according to officials involved.<br \/>\nThey are lining them up with the trade weapons in their armoury, but also looking for gaps in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3327806\/europe-hunts-chokepoints-it-can-weaponise-against-china-age-economic-warfare?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 PostEU officials are scouring the continent for levers they can pull to inflict maximum pain on others, as they look to survive in a&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\/137709"}],"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=137709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}