{"id":147026,"date":"2026-03-01T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147026"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:00:08","slug":"is-europe-the-worlds-geopolitical-punching-bag-ready-to-hit-back-at-the-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147026","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe, the world\u2019s geopolitical punching bag, ready to hit back at the US and China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor over a year, Europe has become the world\u2019s geopolitical punching bag, taking economic roundhouses from the east and geopolitical uppercuts from the west without ever swinging back.<br \/>\nFrom US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and covetous glances at Greenland to Beijing\u2019s rare earth embargoes and lightning blockade of semiconductor shipments, Europe\u2019s first response has been to freeze, not fight.<br \/>\nBut now, it may be ready to counterpunch. After a fresh Trump tariff threat emerged last week, a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3345028\/europe-worlds-geopolitical-punching-bag-ready-hit-back-us-and-china?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 PostFor over a year, Europe has become the world\u2019s geopolitical punching bag, taking economic roundhouses from the east and geopolitical uppercuts from the west&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\/147026"}],"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=147026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}