{"id":29168,"date":"2021-12-09T03:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29168"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:35:24","slug":"strengthen-taiwan-defences-but-keep-strategic-ambiguity-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29168","title":{"rendered":"Strengthen Taiwan defences but keep strategic ambiguity: US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostStrengthening Taiwan\u2019s ability to defend itself is \u201can urgent task\u201d for the US, as China engages in destabilising and \u201cintentionally provocative\u201d actions towards the self-ruled island, a senior US defence official said on Wednesday.Assistant defence secretary Ely Ratner told the Senate foreign relations committee that Taiwan should work to defend itself using \u201ccredible, resilient, mobile, distributed and cost-effective\u201d asymmetric capabilities.He was joined by assistant secretary of state\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3159004\/strengthen-taiwan-defences-keep-strategic-ambiguity-us?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostStrengthening Taiwan\u2019s ability to defend itself is \u201can urgent task\u201d for the US, as China engages in destabilising and \u201cintentionally provocative\u201d actions towards the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29169,"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\/29168"}],"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=29168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}