{"id":144002,"date":"2026-01-12T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144002"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:12","slug":"europes-real-threat-is-its-own-inner-demon-not-russia-former-chinese-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144002","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s real threat is its own inner \u2018demon\u2019, not Russia: former Chinese envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostEurope made a \u201cmisjudgment\u201d in categorising Russia as its top security threat and instead the continent\u2019s real danger lay in Europeans\u2019 inner \u201cdemon\u201d, according to China\u2019s longest-serving ambassador to the US.<br \/>\nCui Tiankai, a former Chinese foreign vice-minister, also claimed Nato had outlived its relevance and argued that the transatlantic security alliance no longer served the long-term interests of its members.<br \/>\nCui\u2019s comments came during a discussion examining US relations with its allies&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3339626\/europes-real-threat-its-own-inner-demon-not-russia-former-chinese-envoy?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 PostEurope made a \u201cmisjudgment\u201d in categorising Russia as its top security threat and instead the continent\u2019s real danger lay in Europeans\u2019 inner \u201cdemon\u201d, according&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\/144002"}],"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=144002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}