{"id":2695,"date":"2021-03-08T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:31:10","slug":"chinas-military-must-spend-more-to-meet-us-war-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China\u2019s military must spend more\u2019 to meet US war threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChina must increase military spending to prepare for a war with a dominant power, according to the country\u2019s top general, raising the spectre of armed conflict with the United States.General Xu Qiliang, second in command of the armed forces after President Xi Jinping, said the spending was necessary to prepare the country for the \u201cThucydides trap\u201d, the idea that conflict is inevitable when one power rises to displace a great one.\u201cIn the face of the Thucydides trap and border problems, the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3124591\/chinas-military-must-spend-more-meet-us-war-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChina must increase military spending to prepare for a war with a dominant power, according to the country\u2019s top general, raising the spectre of armed conflict&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2696,"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\/2695"}],"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=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}