{"id":150931,"date":"2026-05-06T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150931"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:30:05","slug":"us-allies-in-asia-are-looking-to-build-middle-power-coalitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150931","title":{"rendered":"US allies in Asia are looking to build middle-power coalitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cIn an increasingly severe security environment, no single country can now protect its own peace and security alone,\u201d declared Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last month, signalling a major shift in Tokyo\u2019s defence posture.<br \/>\n\u201cUnder the new system, we will strategically promote equipment transfers while making even more rigorous and cautious judgments on whether transfers are permissible,\u201d she added, confirming long-running speculation that Tokyo would relax decades-old restrictions on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/asia-opinion\/article\/3352476\/us-allies-asia-are-looking-build-middle-power-coalitions?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 Post\u201cIn an increasingly severe security environment, no single country can now protect its own peace and security alone,\u201d declared Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&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\/150931"}],"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=150931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}