{"id":24888,"date":"2026-05-31T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/the-peril-of-transactional-deterrence-how-the-us-unwittingly-shifted-taiwans-timeline\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:09:28","slug":"the-peril-of-transactional-deterrence-how-the-us-unwittingly-shifted-taiwans-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/the-peril-of-transactional-deterrence-how-the-us-unwittingly-shifted-taiwans-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"The peril of transactional deterrence: How the US unwittingly shifted Taiwan&#039;s timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/AP26134413441084_cd2c57.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Washington&#8217;s shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the U.S.-China rivalry and threatening to unravel decades of American deterrence in Asia.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5901958-us-china-strategic-shift-taiwan\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the U.S.-China rivalry and threatening to unravel decades of American deterrence in Asia. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}