{"id":142653,"date":"2025-12-18T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142653"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:32:20","slug":"us-arms-deal-supports-taiwans-effort-to-reassure-trump-on-defence-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142653","title":{"rendered":"US arms deal supports Taiwan\u2019s effort to reassure Trump on defence burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US State Department\u2019s approval this week of a US$11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan \u2013 reportedly the largest in the island\u2019s history \u2013 dovetails with Taipei\u2019s effort to show US President Donald Trump it is doing more to defend itself, even as it shifts towards a less conventional \u201cporcupine\u201d strategy, analysts said.<br \/>\n\u201cThese are asymmetric weapons that are focused on bolstering the capability of Taiwan\u2019s military to prevent a PLA invasion,\u201d said Bonnie Glaser, vice-president of the German&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3336978\/us-arms-deal-supports-taiwans-effort-reassure-trump-defence-burden?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 State Department\u2019s approval this week of a US$11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan \u2013 reportedly the largest in the island\u2019s history \u2013&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\/142653"}],"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=142653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}