{"id":144979,"date":"2026-01-27T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144979"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:31:36","slug":"china-coming-closer-to-us-as-global-power-european-ex-leader-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144979","title":{"rendered":"China coming \u2018closer\u2019 to US as \u2018global power\u2019, European ex-leader says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is approaching the United States in terms of overall world power including economic mettle, a former European Commission leader and Portuguese prime minister said this week.<br \/>\nThe United States remains the \u201cmost important global power\u201d but China is getting closer, said Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, the European Commission president from 2004 to 2014, pointing to US technology and finance among other aspects of its prominence.<br \/>\n\u201cChina comes every time closer, from my point of view,\u201d Durao Barroso&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3341334\/china-coming-closer-us-global-power-european-ex-leader-says?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 PostChina is approaching the United States in terms of overall world power including economic mettle, a former European Commission leader and Portuguese prime minister&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\/144979"}],"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=144979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}