{"id":152170,"date":"2026-05-29T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152170"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:00:21","slug":"the-art-of-the-deal-how-beijing-pushed-trump-to-arrest-the-trend-on-taiwan-arms-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152170","title":{"rendered":"The art of the deal: how Beijing pushed Trump to \u2018arrest\u2019 the trend on Taiwan arms sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen US President Donald Trump returned from Beijing earlier this month, he hailed his visit as a historic breakthrough, trumpeting \u201cfantastic trade deals\u201d he sealed and boasting about his close ties with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<br \/>\nBut on the margins, Beijing had sought to extract a price by pushing Washington for concessions on Taiwan.<br \/>\nAccording to people familiar with the matter, Beijing pressed Washington to reduce the size of the arms packages sold to Taiwan and slow the pace of approvals,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3355293\/art-deal-how-beijing-pushed-trump-arrest-trend-taiwan-arms-sales?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 PostWhen US President Donald Trump returned from Beijing earlier this month, he hailed his visit as a historic breakthrough, trumpeting \u201cfantastic trade deals\u201d he&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\/152170"}],"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=152170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}