{"id":151168,"date":"2026-05-11T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151168"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:02:28","slug":"did-us-pressure-before-xi-trump-summit-force-kmt-hand-on-taiwans-defence-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151168","title":{"rendered":"Did US pressure before Xi-Trump summit force KMT hand on Taiwan\u2019s defence budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPressure from Washington was likely to have played a decisive role in Taiwan\u2019s opposition parties backing a sharply expanded special defence budget last week, analysts said, as concerns mount in Taipei ahead of a summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.<br \/>\nThe anxiety centres on potential concessions from Trump this week in exchange for economic gains from Beijing, which views Taiwan as a core interest and the \u201cbiggest risk\u201d in ties with the US, and has kept&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3353177\/did-us-pressure-xi-trump-summit-force-kmt-hand-taiwans-defence-budget?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 PostPressure from Washington was likely to have played a decisive role in Taiwan\u2019s opposition parties backing a sharply expanded special defence budget last week,&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\/151168"}],"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=151168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}