{"id":151250,"date":"2026-05-12T20:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151250"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:54:22","slug":"us-defence-secretary-joins-trump-on-china-trip-in-rare-diplomatic-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151250","title":{"rendered":"US defence secretary joins Trump on China trip in rare diplomatic move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has become the first American defence chief in decades to accompany a sitting president on a state visit to China, in a rare departure from long-established diplomatic practice.<br \/>\nHegseth boarded Air Force One bound for Beijing alongside US President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon, according to the White House.<br \/>\nTrump is set to hold highly anticipated bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday.<br \/>\nA South China Morning Post tally shows&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3353336\/us-defence-secretary-joins-trump-china-trip-rare-diplomatic-move?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 PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has become the first American defence chief in decades to accompany a sitting president on a state visit to&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\/151250"}],"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=151250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}