{"id":739,"date":"2026-03-19T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5c91c9d772430cfe8a71fdb48f3eda3f"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"trump-sees-china-more-as-an-economic-rival-than-a-military-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Trump sees China more as an economic rival than a military threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-sees-china-more-as-an-economic-rival-than-a-military-threat.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington<\/em> | The US has downgraded its classification of China from authoritarian bully seeking regional domination to a destabilising economic rival that must be stopped from winning the technology race.<\/p>\n<p>And while President Donald Trump believes the best thing the US can do to prevent war in the Indo-Pacific is by \u201cwinning the economic future\u201d, he wants allies to build a coalition that pushes back against Beijing\u2019s trade dominance and coercive tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | The US has downgraded its classification of China from authoritarian bully seeking regional domination to a destabilising economic rival that must be stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}