{"id":139552,"date":"2025-11-01T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139552"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:30:09","slug":"to-trump-asean-and-apec-are-simply-platforms-for-his-own-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139552","title":{"rendered":"To Trump, Asean and Apec are simply platforms for his own agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPolitical leaders like to perform on the global stage and there is no greater \u201cperformer\u201d in this regard than US President Donald Trump, who has just been swinging across Asia, doing deals while posing as the best buddy of every national leader he met.<br \/>\nThat kind of showmanship may impress people at home and possibly win more political support, but it hijacks the need for genuine diplomacy and international cooperation in both an economic and political sense.<br \/>\nTwo cases in point are the most&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3330926\/trump-asean-and-apec-are-simply-platforms-his-own-agenda?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 PostPolitical leaders like to perform on the global stage and there is no greater \u201cperformer\u201d in this regard than US President Donald Trump, who&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\/139552"}],"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=139552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}