{"id":146420,"date":"2026-02-18T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146420"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:42:33","slug":"white-house-deflects-as-trump-weighs-taiwan-arms-sale-delay-amid-beijing-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146420","title":{"rendered":"White House deflects as Trump weighs Taiwan arms sale delay amid Beijing pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe White House declined on Wednesday to comment on reports that US President Donald Trump is weighing whether to cancel or delay a US$11 billion arms package to Taiwan, as he seeks to keep an expected April summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on track amid pressure from Beijing.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t have any announcement or updates to share,\u201d said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.<br \/>\nOn Monday, Trump told journalists he had discussed the potential sales with Xi.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve talked to him about it. We had&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3343949\/white-house-deflects-trump-weighs-taiwan-arms-sale-delay-amid-beijing-pressure?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 PostThe White House declined on Wednesday to comment on reports that US President Donald Trump is weighing whether to cancel or delay a US$11&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\/146420"}],"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=146420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}