{"id":151812,"date":"2026-05-22T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151812"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:52:01","slug":"us-navy-signals-pause-in-taiwan-arms-sale-drawing-swift-reaction-from-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151812","title":{"rendered":"US Navy signals pause in Taiwan arms sale, drawing swift reaction from Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing reaffirmed its opposition to arms sales to Taiwan after the acting secretary of the US Navy said Washington was pausing a US$14 billion weapons purchase by the self-governed island.<br \/>\n\u201cChina\u2019s firm opposition to US arms sales to China\u2019s Taiwan region is consistent, clear and unwavering,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Friday.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, acting US Navy head Hung Cao told a congressional hearing that \u201cright now we\u2019re doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3354539\/us-navy-signals-pause-taiwan-arms-sale-drawing-swift-reaction-beijing?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 PostBeijing reaffirmed its opposition to arms sales to Taiwan after the acting secretary of the US Navy said Washington was pausing a US$14 billion&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\/151812"}],"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=151812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}