{"id":142341,"date":"2025-12-14T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142341"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:00:22","slug":"is-the-us-pushing-south-korea-to-the-fore-in-deterring-a-war-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142341","title":{"rendered":"Is the US pushing South Korea to the fore in deterring a war over Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMounting US pressure on allies to bolster the first island chain\u2019s defence in the western Pacific Ocean is raising concerns about South Korea\u2019s possible but reluctant involvement in a conflict over Taiwan, analysts have said.<br \/>\nIn its recently released National Security Strategy (NSS), US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration highlighted the importance of a \u201cfavourable conventional military balance\u201d as an \u201cessential component of strategic competition\u201d, focusing on deterring conflict over Taiwan&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3336351\/us-pushing-south-korea-fore-deterring-war-over-taiwan?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 PostMounting US pressure on allies to bolster the first island chain\u2019s defence in the western Pacific Ocean is raising concerns about South Korea\u2019s possible&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\/142341"}],"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=142341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}