{"id":38181,"date":"2021-10-12T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38181"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:16:42","slug":"conflicts-of-interest-the-us-is-pushing-china-to-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/12\/conflicts-of-interest-the-us-is-pushing-china-to-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>Conflicts of Interest<\/I>: The US Is Pushing China to the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On COI #173, Dave DeCamp \u2013 News Editor at Antiwar.com \u2013 returns to the show to discuss recent news about China and Iran. Upon taking office, Biden had a golden opportunity to undo a key Trump blunder and return to the Iran nuclear agreement. However, Biden delayed action and is now struggling to make any progress with a new president in Tehran. Israel also remains a perpetual thorn in the side of diplomacy in the region, Dave and Kyle Anzalone explain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US continues to use Taiwan to provoke China. Washington\u2019s increased diplomatic ties with the island, as well as weapons sales, have pushed the two even further from Beijing\u2019s decades-old &#8216;One China&#8217; policy. The US is also increasing its military presence in the region with the \u2018AUKUS\u2019 agreement with the UK and Australia, a pact designed to counter China in the Indo-Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXsiX0NOIXbKLd8kNPbKjjQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/kyle\/coi-173-provoking-china-with-taiwan-is-a-losing-policy-for-america\/\">audio only.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4p92clYFhGg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #173, Dave DeCamp \u2013 News Editor at Antiwar.com \u2013 returns to the show to discuss recent news about China and Iran. Upon taking office, Biden had a golden opportunity to undo a key Trump blunder and return to the Iran nuclear agreement. However, Biden delayed action and is now struggling to make any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38185,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181\/revisions\/38185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}