{"id":149379,"date":"2026-04-09T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149379"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:00:27","slug":"china-sidelined-eu-shelves-rare-strategy-debate-as-middle-east-crisis-takes-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149379","title":{"rendered":"China sidelined: EU shelves rare strategy debate as Middle East crisis takes priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA long-awaited EU debate on China has been shelved in favour of the Middle East crisis, highlighting how Europe is struggling to treat Beijing as a strategic priority despite mounting economic pressure.<br \/>\nThe European Commission\u2019s security college was set to meet this coming Monday to debate the challenges posed by Beijing, as part of what officials were referring to internally as \u201cChina week\u201d.<br \/>\nIt would have been the first strategic discussion among the bloc\u2019s 27 commissioners under President&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349548\/china-sidelined-eu-shelves-rare-strategy-debate-middle-east-crisis-takes-priority?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 PostA long-awaited EU debate on China has been shelved in favour of the Middle East crisis, highlighting how Europe is struggling to treat Beijing&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\/149379"}],"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=149379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}