{"id":151915,"date":"2026-05-25T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151915"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:07:22","slug":"taipei-optimistic-about-arms-deal-even-after-us-navy-chief-says-its-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151915","title":{"rendered":"Taipei \u2018optimistic\u2019 about arms deal even after US Navy chief says it\u2019s on ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s defence minister said on Monday he remained \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about US approval of an arms package for the island, even as a senior Pentagon official said Washington would put the sale on hold.<br \/>\nThe reassurance by Wellington Koo Li-hsiung came after acting US Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said Washington was pausing the proposed deal to ensure the US military had sufficient ammunition to continue its war on Iran.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re just making sure we have everything, but then the foreign&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3354780\/taipei-optimistic-about-arms-deal-even-after-us-navy-chief-says-its-ice?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 PostTaiwan\u2019s defence minister said on Monday he remained \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about US approval of an arms package for the island, even as a senior&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\/151915"}],"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=151915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}