{"id":9477,"date":"2021-01-17T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117905\/us-china-relations-pompeos-bomb-throwing-taiwan-shift-leaves-biden"},"modified":"2021-01-17T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:00:08","slug":"us-china-relations-pompeos-bomb-throwing-taiwan-shift-leaves-biden-in-bind-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/us-china-relations-pompeos-bomb-throwing-taiwan-shift-leaves-biden-in-bind-with-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"US-China relations: Pompeo\u2019s bomb-throwing Taiwan shift leaves Biden in bind with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is probably strutting around and feeling his oats, having accomplished several goals simultaneously with his decision to lift all unofficial constraints on US-Taiwan relations in effect as of 2021.\r\rNo doubt he wanted to go out in glory, supporting those in the US Congress and US citizens who favour even stronger ties with Taiwan. Such a move, he hopes, will position him if he makes a run for the presidency in 2024. I am sure he also took great pleasure in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117905\/us-china-relations-pompeos-bomb-throwing-taiwan-shift-leaves-biden\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is probably strutting around and feeling his oats, having accomplished several goals simultaneously with his decision to lift all unofficial constraints on US-Taiwan relations in effect as of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt he wanted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477"}],"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\/960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}