{"id":37103,"date":"2022-02-24T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37103"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:00:30","slug":"balancing-china-why-indonesia-is-on-a-multibillion-dollar-spending-spree-for-us-and-french-fighter-jetsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=37103","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Balancing China\u2019: why Indonesia is on a multibillion-dollar spending spree for US and French fighter jetsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIndonesia\u2019s recent spending spree on equipment underlines the pressure on the country to modernise its ageing defence arsenal amid rising US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region, but fiscal challenges and a limited budget will make it hard to complete the task, experts have said.On February 10, Jakarta secured a US$8.1 billion deal to purchase 42 French-made Dassault Rafale fighter jets, with the two countries having already signed the first contract for the purchase of six fighter jets\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3168277\/balancing-china-why-indonesia-multibillion-dollar-spending-spree?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIndonesia\u2019s recent spending spree on equipment underlines the pressure on the country to modernise its ageing defence arsenal amid rising US-China&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103"}],"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=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}