{"id":21960,"date":"2021-09-25T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=21960"},"modified":"2021-09-25T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T08:00:14","slug":"china-the-us-and-a-twitter-tit-for-tat-over-congo-cobalt-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=21960","title":{"rendered":"China, the US and a Twitter tit-for-tat over Congo cobalt contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced his decision, a former American diplomat was quick to offer support.J. Peter Pham, a former US special envoy to the Great Lakes and Sahel regions, endorsed Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi\u2019s plan to renegotiate infrastructure-for-minerals deals China had signed with the DRC over the last decade or so.The US has no outward stake in the agreements, but Pham, now a fellow at the Washington-based think tank the Atlantic\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3150089\/china-us-and-twitter-tit-tat-over-congo-cobalt-contracts?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced his decision, a former American diplomat was quick to offer support.J. Peter Pham,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21961,"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\/21960"}],"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=21960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}