{"id":156198,"date":"2026-08-17T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156198"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:00:09","slug":"claims-hegseth-on-verge-of-losing-job-raise-questions-about-future-us-china-defence-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156198","title":{"rendered":"Claims Hegseth \u2018on verge of losing job\u2019 raise questions about future US-China defence ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSpeculation is growing that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is at increasing risk of losing his job, raising questions about the possible implications for US-China relations, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.<br \/>\nThe sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the matter publicly, said Hegseth was \u201con the verge of losing his job\u201d.<br \/>\nThey cited the ongoing deadlock over Iran and a slew of negative media reports, with one source pointing to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3364313\/claims-hegseth-verge-losing-job-raise-questions-about-future-us-china-defence-ties?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 PostSpeculation is growing that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is at increasing risk of losing his job, raising questions about the possible implications for US-China&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\/156198"}],"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=156198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}