{"id":10173,"date":"2026-02-15T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/02\/15\/how-china-is-playing-its-geopolitical-cards-in-the-trump-era-dw-com\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:42:54","slug":"how-china-is-playing-its-geopolitical-cards-in-the-trump-era-dw-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/02\/15\/how-china-is-playing-its-geopolitical-cards-in-the-trump-era-dw-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How China is playing its geopolitical cards in the Trump era &#8211; DW.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<header><span><span><span>February 15, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, outlines China\u2019s opportunities and challenges as it tries to make the most out of the Trump era.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\">\n<p><span>https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/58oCZ<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>While Western countries squabble over culture war issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/xi-jinping\/t-17449321\">Xi Jinping<\/a> has been flexing his power over rare earth supply chains, sticking close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/vladimir-putin\/t-17449200\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, and adding to the pressure on Taiwan. Could he now tempt European countries to overlook all this and build closer ties with Beijing, to hedge their bets against an unpredictable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\">US<\/a>? And could he be on the verge of a major concession from Donald Trump on Taiwan? Da Wei spoke to DW\u2019s Richard Walker at the Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15, 2026 Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, outlines China\u2019s opportunities and challenges as it tries to make the most out of the Trump era. https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/58oCZ While Western countries squabble over culture war issues, Xi Jinping has been flexing his power over rare earth supply chains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}