{"id":158806,"date":"2026-10-14T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158806"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:45:00","slug":"hegseth-calls-us1-5-trillion-defence-budget-critical-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158806","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth calls US$1.5 trillion defence budget \u2018critical\u2019 to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has called a nearly US$1.5 trillion defence budget request \u201cabsolutely critical\u201d, warning that whoever falls behind in autonomy, robotics and AI will fall \u201ceven further behind\u201d as Washington eyes China\u2019s rapid military modernisation.<br \/>\nSpeaking at a panel discussion during the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition on Wednesday, Hegseth said that Project Agincourt, the Pentagon\u2019s initiative to accelerate drone and autonomous&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/politics\/article\/3370924\/hegseth-calls-us15-trillion-defence-budget-critical-counter-china?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 has called a nearly US$1.5 trillion defence budget request \u201cabsolutely critical\u201d, warning that whoever falls behind in autonomy, robotics&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\/158806"}],"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=158806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}