{"id":143733,"date":"2026-01-07T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143733"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:00:09","slug":"korean-peninsula-arms-race-is-heating-up-how-will-china-react-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143733","title":{"rendered":"Korean peninsula arms race is heating up. How will China react in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep \u2013 Japan and South Korea. In the second of a two-part series, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at how competing pressures in the Korean peninsula may complicate China\u2019s security calculus. Read the first part here.<br \/>\nIn 2025, there was a major shift in China\u2019s security environment relating to the Korean peninsula, as the North grew more open in its push for nuclear weapons and the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3338853\/korean-peninsula-arms-race-heating-how-will-china-react-2026?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 PostAs the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep \u2013 Japan 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\/143733"}],"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=143733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}