{"id":155151,"date":"2026-07-25T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155151"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:00:08","slug":"how-americas-250-year-china-dream-became-its-greatest-strategic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155151","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s 250-year China dream became its greatest strategic challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOne morning in February 1784, a converted privateer called the Empress of China sailed out of New York harbour. It was bound for a country almost no one aboard had ever seen \u2013 China, then ruled by the Qing dynasty.<br \/>\nSix months later, it dropped anchor at Canton, the only port where the Qing government allowed Western maritime trade.<br \/>\nAt the time, the Declaration of Independence was less than a decade old, and the Treaty of Paris recognising American independence had been signed less than a year&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3361843\/how-americas-250-year-china-dream-became-its-greatest-strategic-challenge?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 PostOne morning in February 1784, a converted privateer called the Empress of China sailed out of New York harbour. It was bound for a&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\/155151"}],"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=155151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}