{"id":137987,"date":"2025-10-08T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137987"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:11:09","slug":"east-timor-steps-into-asean-spotlight-amid-us-china-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137987","title":{"rendered":"East Timor steps into Asean spotlight amid US-China rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor more than half a century, Jose Luis Guterres has been East Timor\u2019s voice to the world \u2013 first as a diplomat in exile during Indonesia\u2019s brutal occupation, and later as the fledgling nation\u2019s deputy prime minister and foreign minister.<br \/>\nAt 71, he still carries the weight of a tiny country that only gained sovereignty in 2002, after nearly 400 years under Portugal and a generation under Jakarta\u2019s rule.<br \/>\nBack in Washington for a second, non-consecutive stint as ambassador \u2013 his first was under&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/economy-trade-business\/article\/3328284\/asean-membership-draws-tiny-strategic-indo-pacific-nation-closer-us-china-chess-match?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 more than half a century, Jose Luis Guterres has been East Timor\u2019s voice to the world \u2013 first as a diplomat in exile&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\/137987"}],"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=137987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}