{"id":151117,"date":"2026-05-10T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151117"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:30:05","slug":"china-shouldnt-view-a-tired-us-as-signifying-a-europe-ready-to-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151117","title":{"rendered":"China shouldn\u2019t view a tired US as signifying a Europe ready to pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen US President Donald Trump announced that 5,000 US troops would leave Germany, the immediate reading in Western capitals was political: another round in Trump\u2019s running quarrel with European allies, triggered by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s criticism of Washington\u2019s handling of the war with Iran.<br \/>\nFor Beijing, the more interesting reading is structural. The drawdown coincides with a period in which Foreign Minister Wang Yi has spent much of 2026 cultivating a \u201cpartners not rivals\u201d&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3352882\/china-shouldnt-view-tired-us-signifying-europe-ready-pivot?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 PostWhen US President Donald Trump announced that 5,000 US troops would leave Germany, the immediate reading in Western capitals was political: another round in&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\/151117"}],"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=151117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}