{"id":142573,"date":"2025-12-17T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142573"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:00:09","slug":"why-chinas-rapid-military-build-up-is-hardly-the-whole-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142573","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s rapid military build-up is \u2018hardly the whole story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIt has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the third part of a series looking back at the events of 2025, we examine China\u2019s growing military might and how it\u2019s narrowing the tech gap with the US.<br \/>\nUS defence chief Pete Hegseth told a conference in Washington this month that America would maintain a \u201cclear-eyed appreciation\u201d of China\u2019s \u201crapid, formidable and holistic\u201d military build-up.<br \/>\nThat build-up is being watched globally, with defence experts in recent years&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3336735\/why-chinas-rapid-military-build-hardly-whole-story?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 PostIt has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the third part of a series looking back at the events of&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\/142573"}],"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=142573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}