{"id":10675,"date":"2023-05-13T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:43:00","slug":"pentagon-chiefs-debt-default-is-bad-for-troops-good-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10675","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chiefs: Debt default is bad for troops, good for China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;\u201cChina right now describes us in their open speeches, etc., as a declining power,\u201d Milley said. \u201cDefaulting on the debt would only reinforce that thought and embolden China and increase risk to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin added that a default would mean a \u201csubstantial risk to our reputation\u201d that China could exploit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/11\/pentagon-chiefs-debt-default-is-bad-for-troops-good-for-china-00096429\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/11\/pentagon-chiefs-debt-default-is-bad-for-troops-good-for-china-00096429<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cChina right now describes us in their open speeches, etc., as a declining power,\u201d Milley said. \u201cDefaulting on the debt would only reinforce that thought and embolden China and increase risk to the United States.\u201d<br \/>\nAustin added that a default would mean a \u201csubstantial risk to our reputation\u201d that China could exploit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,542,7,1393,1385,1877,278,1193,279,619],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-debt-limit","tag-default","tag-deficit","tag-government-spending","tag-spending","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10676,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/10676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}