{"id":141940,"date":"2025-12-08T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141940"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:01:00","slug":"us-defence-chief-touts-flexible-realism-with-china-ahead-of-strategy-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141940","title":{"rendered":"US defence chief touts \u2018flexible realism\u2019 with China ahead of strategy document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US defence chief touted a message of peace, communication and \u201cflexible realism\u201d with China in a speech over the weekend, foreshadowing an American national defence strategy that is expected to be released soon.<br \/>\nIn his keynote address at the annual Reagan National Defence Forum on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Washington was committed to putting \u201cAmerica first\u201d and avoiding involvement in foreign entanglements as it prioritised domestic security.<br \/>\nYet in drawing comparisons&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3335615\/us-defence-chief-touts-flexible-realism-china-ahead-strategy-documents-release?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 PostThe US defence chief touted a message of peace, communication and \u201cflexible realism\u201d with China in a speech over the weekend, foreshadowing an American&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\/141940"}],"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=141940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}