{"id":2367,"date":"2023-01-30T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2023-01-30T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:49:12","slug":"sino-american-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/sino-american-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sino-American Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a Republican thinks the odds of warring with China are &#8216;very high&#8217;. \u00a0Michael McCaul of Texas argues that the US will protect Taiwan and China will invade it.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan was fought over by the Europeans, invaded and traded with by China (after a lot of the populations had died of diseases) and annexed in the 17th century. But the US likes the fact that Chiang Kai Shek, seen as broadly anti-communist, held his last government in Taiwan. The US is not interested in freedom, never has been, but it is interested in capitalism and any pro-capitalist movements.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is thr US would take Taiwan in a heartbeat if the shoe was on the other foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a Republican thinks the odds of warring with China are &#8216;very high&#8217;. \u00a0Michael McCaul of Texas argues that the US will protect Taiwan and China will invade it. Taiwan was fought over by the Europeans, invaded and traded with by China (after a lot of the populations had died of diseases) and annexed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[135,463,702],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-chiang-kai-shek","tag-michael-mccaul","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}