{"id":150388,"date":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150388"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","slug":"trump-factor-drives-up-asia-pacific-military-spending-at-fastest-pace-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150388","title":{"rendered":"Trump factor drives up Asia-Pacific military spending at fastest pace since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMilitary spending in the Asia-Pacific rose at the fastest pace for 16 years in 2025 as US allies felt \u201cgrowing uncertainty\u201d over whether Washington would honour its security commitments, according to a new report.<br \/>\nTotal global spending reached US$2.89 trillion, an increase of 2.9 per cent from 2024, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank said in its annual report on military expenditure published Monday.<br \/>\nThat marked the 11th consecutive year of increases and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3351456\/trump-factor-drives-asia-pacific-military-spending-fastest-pace-2009?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 PostMilitary spending in the Asia-Pacific rose at the fastest pace for 16 years in 2025 as US allies felt \u201cgrowing uncertainty\u201d over whether Washington&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\/150388"}],"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=150388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}