{"id":138527,"date":"2025-10-16T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138527"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:00:10","slug":"the-squeeze-is-on-beijing-and-washington-flex-muscles-as-narrative-war-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138527","title":{"rendered":"The squeeze is on: Beijing and Washington flex muscles as narrative war heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs China and the United States accuse each other of provoking the latest escalation in trade tensions and disrupting the world economy, analysts say both share a goal in their war of words: applying maximum pressure until a deal is struck.<br \/>\nIn the past few days, Washington has framed the recent flare-up in relations as \u201cChina versus the world\u201d, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggesting on Wednesday that Beijing\u2019s restrictions on the export of rare earth elements unveiled last week made&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3329260\/squeeze-beijing-and-washington-flex-muscles-narrative-war-heats?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 PostAs China and the United States accuse each other of provoking the latest escalation in trade tensions and disrupting the world economy, analysts say&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\/138527"}],"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=138527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}