{"id":466880,"date":"2026-02-11T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:14:09","slug":"us-china-trumps-focus-on-west-hands-xi-economic-edge-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466880\/","title":{"rendered":"US-China: Trump&#8217;s Focus on West Hands Xi Economic Edge in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">With one armada in the Caribbean and another off Iran, Donald Trump isn\u2019t shy about picking a fight. The risk is he loses sight of how American power has worked to deter costly conflicts in the places that count most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">For more than a decade, American strategists have called for a pivot to Asia, where the world\u2019s economic growth is centered. Make that the priority, and a couple of things follow: The US needs allies to stave off China \u2014 and should at least pay lip service to global rules, if it wants others to play by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one armada in the Caribbean and another off Iran, Donald Trump isn\u2019t shy about picking a fight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5806,45,49,48,95,14208,2445,548,46,3456,11346,5897,20015,1382,97622],"class_list":["post-466880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-global-trade","tag-iran","tag-national-security","tag-taiwan","tag-the-big-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}