{"id":18799,"date":"2025-07-27T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18799"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:16:22","slug":"is-america-ceding-ground-to-china-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18799","title":{"rendered":"Is America Ceding Ground to China in the Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. tariffing and ending aid to Pacific countries in such a way that makes the U.S. look like an erratic&nbsp;and bad partner, and makes China look relatively better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is America Ceding Ground to China in the Pacific?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B77a8o3RSUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. tariffing and ending aid to Pacific countries in such a way that makes the U.S. look like an erratic and bad partner, and makes China look relatively better. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B77a8o3RSUw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1527,1366,729,89,390,272,355,290,314,208,141,619],"class_list":["post-18799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aid","tag-allies","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-imports","tag-international-relations","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799","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=18799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18800,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions\/18800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}