{"id":153156,"date":"2026-06-18T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153156"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:00:06","slug":"no-call-with-taiwan-no-new-arms-sales-how-trump-is-preparing-to-welcome-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153156","title":{"rendered":"No call with Taiwan, no new arms sales: how Trump is preparing to welcome Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump is not expected to have a phone call with Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te any time soon, despite saying earlier that he would be open to speaking with the person \u201crunning\u201d the island.<br \/>\nTwo people familiar with the matter said there had been no movement towards arranging such a conversation, which was reliant on the American leader\u2019s willingness to take the initiative.<br \/>\nThree other sources said the US believed that a call with Lai could derail an expected summit with Chinese&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3357586\/no-call-taiwan-no-new-arms-sales-how-trump-preparing-welcome-xi?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 President Donald Trump is not expected to have a phone call with Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te any time soon, despite saying earlier that&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\/153156"}],"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=153156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}