{"id":27209,"date":"2011-07-11T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/with_u-s-_military_aid_cut_pakistan_eyes_china\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:30:46","slug":"with_u-s-_military_aid_cut_pakistan_eyes_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27209","title":{"rendered":"With U.S. military aid cut, Pakistan eyes China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s increasingly &#8220;close and effective defense ties&#8221; established with China during the past decade will allow Islamabad to &#8220;fill the gap&#8221; arising from the prospect of reduced military aid from the United States, a senior Pakistani official said on Sunday after reports emerged of cuts of up to $800 million in U.S. aid.<\/p>\n<p>Amid tense relations with the United States, Pakistan officials have increasingly pointed towards Beijing as the country&#8217;s natural ally, offering the possibility of becoming at least a half-substitute to ties with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503543_162-20078219-503543.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s increasingly &#8220;close and effective defense ties&#8221; established with China during the past decade will allow Islamabad to &#8220;fill the gap&#8221; arising from the prospect of reduced military aid from the United States, a senior Pakistani official said on Sunday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27209\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,201,502,143,144,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-china","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}