{"id":144843,"date":"2026-01-24T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144843"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:00:10","slug":"what-about-taiwan-why-us-foreign-policy-is-now-all-about-the-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144843","title":{"rendered":"What about Taiwan? Why US foreign policy is now all about the western hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the US State Department\u2019s catalogue of priorities for the next five years, Taiwan rates exactly zero mentions.<br \/>\nThe department\u2019s Agency Strategic Plan does list peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific as a goal but its top focus after national security is the western hemisphere.<br \/>\nThe plan sets out the direction of US foreign policy and foreign assistance between 2026 and 2030 and in doing so, sidesteps the island entirely.<br \/>\nIt is a contrast to the White House\u2019s National Security Strategy (NSS)&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3341101\/what-about-taiwan-why-us-foreign-policy-now-all-about-western-hemisphere?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 PostIn the US State Department\u2019s catalogue of priorities for the next five years, Taiwan rates exactly zero mentions. The department\u2019s Agency Strategic Plan does&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\/144843"}],"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=144843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}