{"id":155673,"date":"2026-08-05T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155673"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:00:10","slug":"us-hawks-push-trump-on-multibillion-dollar-taiwan-arms-deal-ahead-of-xi-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155673","title":{"rendered":"US hawks push Trump on multibillion-dollar Taiwan arms deal ahead of Xi summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWashington has reopened discussions on billions in arms sales to Taiwan, casting a shadow over a leaders\u2019 summit just weeks away \u2013 a meeting already burdened by bilateral trade frictions.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump is expected to submit a US$14 billion Taiwan arms package to the US Congress soon, according to senior Republican lawmaker Michael McCaul on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cI am confident the president will forward soon another package to Congress with an additional US$14 billion in critical military&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3363085\/us-hawks-push-trump-multibillion-dollar-taiwan-arms-deal-ahead-xi-summit?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 PostWashington has reopened discussions on billions in arms sales to Taiwan, casting a shadow over a leaders\u2019 summit just weeks away \u2013 a meeting&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\/155673"}],"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=155673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}