{"id":142798,"date":"2025-12-21T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142798"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:00:10","slug":"how-will-us-china-ties-fare-with-trump-calling-fentanyl-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142798","title":{"rendered":"How will US-China ties fare with Trump calling fentanyl a \u2018weapon of mass destruction\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDonald Trump\u2019s move labelling fentanyl a \u201cweapon of mass destruction\u201d is unlikely to disrupt Sino-US relations, but it expands Washington\u2019s China policy toolbox and could inject uncertainty in ties over the long term, according to analysts.<br \/>\nOn Monday, the American president signed an executive order designating illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, as a weapon of mass destruction, calling the drug \u201ccloser to a chemical weapon than a narcotic\u201d.<br \/>\nWithout naming names, the order highlighted&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3336909\/how-will-us-china-ties-fare-trump-calling-fentanyl-weapon-mass-destruction?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 PostDonald Trump\u2019s move labelling fentanyl a \u201cweapon of mass destruction\u201d is unlikely to disrupt Sino-US relations, but it expands Washington\u2019s China policy toolbox and&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\/142798"}],"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=142798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}