{"id":141108,"date":"2025-11-24T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141108"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:30:13","slug":"the-china-factor-behind-trumps-decision-to-upgrade-saudi-air-powerunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141108","title":{"rendered":"The China factor behind Trump\u2019s decision to upgrade Saudi air powerUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US is poised to supply Saudi Arabia with its most advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets, a move that analysts say reflects a new era of Middle East policy in which countering Chinese influence is fast becoming as important for Washington as maintaining Israeli military superiority.<br \/>\nIt would make Saudi Arabia only the second country in the region, after Israel, to operate the fifth-generation jet.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump announced the decision following a meeting with Saudi Arabia\u2019s visiting&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3333936\/china-factor-behind-trumps-sale-f-35s-saudi-arabia?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US is poised to supply Saudi Arabia with its most advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets, a move that 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141108"}],"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=141108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}