{"id":143165,"date":"2025-12-28T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143165"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:00:12","slug":"why-saudi-arabia-might-not-fulfil-its-us-spending-pledge-and-the-china-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143165","title":{"rendered":"Why Saudi Arabia might not fulfil its US spending pledge, and the China factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSaudi Arabia has pledged to boost investments in America to nearly US$1 trillion, but according to analysts Riyadh could struggle to meet that target.<br \/>\nRather, they said the pledge \u2013 announced when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Washington last month \u2013 was more about the \u201cpolitical display\u201d than a binding commitment.<br \/>\nIt was an increase to the US$600 billion that was promised in May, when US President Donald Trump visited Riyadh.<br \/>\nThe latest pledge comes as the rivalry intensifies between&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3337792\/why-saudi-arabia-might-not-fulfil-its-us-spending-pledge-and-china-factor?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 PostSaudi Arabia has pledged to boost investments in America to nearly US$1 trillion, but according to analysts Riyadh could struggle to meet that target.&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\/143165"}],"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=143165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}