{"id":152212,"date":"2026-05-30T06:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152212"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:40:24","slug":"how-us-defence-chief-hegseth-softened-his-tone-towards-china-after-xi-trump-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152212","title":{"rendered":"How US defence chief Hegseth softened his tone towards China after Xi-Trump meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth softened his tone towards China in his speech on Saturday to the Shangri-La defence forum compared with the previous year.<br \/>\nSpeaking two weeks after the meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing, Hegseth also adopted a cautious stance on US arms sales to Taiwan when questioned about the highly sensitive issue and did not mention the island at all in his speech.<br \/>\nAlthough he still criticised China\u2019s military build-up, unlike last year he did&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3355401\/how-us-defence-chief-hegseth-softened-his-tone-towards-china-after-trump-xi-meeting?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 softened his tone towards China in his speech on Saturday to the Shangri-La defence forum compared with the previous&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\/152212"}],"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=152212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}