{"id":151299,"date":"2026-05-13T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151299"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:23:22","slug":"what-does-pentagon-chief-hegseths-presence-in-china-say-about-trumps-military-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151299","title":{"rendered":"What does Pentagon chief Hegseth\u2019s presence in China say about Trump\u2019s military agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s rare presence in President Donald Trump\u2019s entourage to Beijing signals a willingness on both sides to strengthen military communications to de-escalate and avoid crises, and suggests US arms sales to Taiwan will feature in talks, analysts say.<br \/>\nThe Chinese experts expected Beijing to include Defence Minister Dong Jun in talks during the summit, with one source suggesting that Dong and Hegseth might also hold separate negotiations on the sidelines of the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3353458\/what-does-pentagon-chief-hegseths-presence-china-say-about-trumps-military-agenda?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\u2019s rare presence in President Donald Trump\u2019s entourage to Beijing signals a willingness on both sides to strengthen military communications&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\/151299"}],"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=151299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}