{"id":5757,"date":"2021-04-09T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:14:32","slug":"joe-bidens-us715-billion-defence-spending-request-to-counter-top-challenge-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5757","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden\u2019s US$715 billion defence spending request to counter \u2018top challenge\u2019 from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS President Joe Biden\u2019s upcoming budget proposal will seek US$715 billion for the Pentagon this year, in part to counter the \u201ctop challenge\u201d of China.The proposal was the latest signal from the new administration that it sees competition with China as an urgent priority.\u00a0\u201cThe discretionary request prioritises the need to counter the threat from China as the [Defence] Department\u2019s top challenge,\u201d a summary of the upcoming budget proposal released by the White House on Friday said.\u00a0Biden has not\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3129009\/joe-bidens-us715-billion-defence-spending-request-counter-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostUS President Joe Biden\u2019s upcoming budget proposal will seek US$715 billion for the Pentagon this year, in part to counter the \u201ctop challenge\u201d of China.The proposal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5758,"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\/5757"}],"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=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}