{"id":358164,"date":"2021-10-22T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=218236"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:54:11","slug":"the-us-empire-coercion-and-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/22\/the-us-empire-coercion-and-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Empire: Coercion and Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military has nearly 800 military bases scattered over 70 countries. China, its most recent competitor, has one. Spending for the U.S. military is about three times the amount Chinese government spends, and is more than the military budgets of Russia, India, the U.K., Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, Germany and China combined. \u201cThe U.S.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-us-empire-coercion-and-consent\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-us-empire-coercion-and-consent\/\">The US Empire: Coercion and Consent<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-us-empire-coercion-and-consent\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military has nearly 800 military bases scattered over 70 countries. China, its most recent competitor, has one. Spending for the U.S. military is about three times the amount Chinese government spends, and is more than the military budgets of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358510,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358164\/revisions\/358510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}