{"id":137751,"date":"2025-10-04T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137751"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:00:09","slug":"saudi-pakistan-defence-pact-poses-nuclear-dilemma-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137751","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-Pakistan defence pact poses nuclear dilemma for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSaudi Arabia\u2019s recent mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan is widely seen as a strategic move by the kingdom as it seeks alternatives to its traditional security guarantees from the United States.<br \/>\nHowever, it also poses a dilemma for China, which has strong relations with both countries, including a long-standing collaboration with Riyadh on its civilian nuclear programme.<br \/>\nAnalysts suggested Beijing would not wish this nuclear partnership to develop further to avoid provoking the US&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3327778\/saudi-pakistan-defence-pact-poses-nuclear-dilemma-china?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 PostSaudi Arabia\u2019s recent mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan is widely seen as a strategic move by the kingdom as it seeks alternatives to&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\/137751"}],"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=137751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}