{"id":150038,"date":"2026-04-20T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150038"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:30:08","slug":"how-new-us-indonesia-defence-pact-sharpens-chinas-malacca-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150038","title":{"rendered":"How new US-Indonesia defence pact sharpens China\u2019s \u2018Malacca dilemma\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIndonesia says it is not choosing sides. That is true in diplomacy. It is less true on the map. The \u201cmajor defence cooperation partnership\u201d announced by Washington and Jakarta on April 13 is written in the safe language of official communiques: capacity building, education, exercises, cooperation. But the harder meaning lies beneath the phrasing.<br \/>\nThe most important line in this new defence partnership is not the reassuring one about \u201cpeace and stability\u201d. It is the one about \u201cmaritime,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/asia-opinion\/article\/3350215\/how-new-us-indonesia-defence-pact-sharpens-chinas-malacca-dilemma?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 PostIndonesia says it is not choosing sides. That is true in diplomacy. It is less true on the map. The \u201cmajor defence cooperation partnership\u201d&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\/150038"}],"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=150038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}