{"id":16744,"date":"2021-08-01T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16744"},"modified":"2021-08-01T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:00:22","slug":"iraq-troop-withdrawal-deal-marks-latest-phase-in-us-shift-to-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16744","title":{"rendered":"Iraq troop withdrawal deal marks latest phase in US shift to Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe recent US announcement that it will pull combat troops out of Iraq continues its shift of focus towards the Asia-Pacific as China becomes its top priority.US President Joe Biden and visiting Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi agreed on Monday that American combat forces in Iraq will be withdrawn by the end of the year, with the US shifting into an advisory and support role in the fight against Islamic State.\u201cOur role in Iraq \u2026 it\u2019s just to be available, to continue to train, to assist,\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3143328\/iraq-troop-withdrawal-deal-marks-latest-phase-us-shift-asia?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe recent US announcement that it will pull combat troops out of Iraq continues its shift of focus towards the Asia-Pacific as China becomes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16745,"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\/16744"}],"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=16744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}