{"id":159249,"date":"2026-10-24T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159249"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:03:53","slug":"is-washington-misreading-beijing-decline-in-us-visits-to-china-sparks-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159249","title":{"rendered":"Is Washington misreading Beijing? Decline in US visits to China sparks concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Grant Newsham, a retired US Marine colonel and security analyst, sat down for an interview that aired last month, he called China\u2019s economic rise illusory and said there were \u201c600 million Chinese at least who live on US$5 a day or less\u201d.<br \/>\nHis remarks quickly drew online criticism as well as accusations that he was using outdated figures from 2020 while ignoring differences in purchasing power.<br \/>\nSome commenters argued that uneven development was common across countries. Others questioned how&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3371535\/washington-misreading-beijing-decline-us-visits-china-sparks-concern\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Grant Newsham, a retired US Marine colonel and security analyst, sat down for an interview that aired last month, he called China\u2019s economic&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\/159249"}],"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=159249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}