{"id":139490,"date":"2025-10-31T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139490"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:39:46","slug":"us-does-not-seek-conflict-hegseth-says-in-meeting-with-chinese-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139490","title":{"rendered":"US does not seek conflict, Hegseth says in meeting with Chinese defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth met Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun in person for the first time on Friday, with both sides saying they are pushing for peace a day after a summit between their presidents brought tensions down.<br \/>\nThe discussion on the sidelines of the Asean Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting Plus in Malaysia was the first face-to-face meeting between the defence ministers of China and the US since Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, although Dong and Hegseth had held a video call&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3331077\/us-does-not-seek-conflict-hegseth-says-meeting-chinese-defence-minister-dong?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 Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth met Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun in person for the first time on Friday, with both sides saying they&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\/139490"}],"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=139490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}