{"id":69793,"date":"2025-03-02T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/02\/america-is-going-down-china-can-capitalise-on-damage-caused-by-trump-former-pla-colonel-says"},"modified":"2025-03-02T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T10:00:06","slug":"america-is-going-down-china-can-capitalise-on-damage-caused-by-trump-former-pla-colonel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69793","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America is going down\u2019: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Zhou Bo says harm done to US image may make Taiwanese reconsider their attitude towards Beijing but says he sees Trump as overall being \u2018rather friendly\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by Donald Trump to the United States\u2019 reputation is creating opportunities for China, particularly with regards to Taiwan, according to a retired senior colonel from China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US\u2019s reputation \u201cmore than all of his predecessors combined\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/02\/america-is-going-down-china-can-capitalise-on-damage-caused-by-trump-former-pla-colonel-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Zhou Bo says harm done to US image may make Taiwanese reconsider their attitude towards Beijing but says he sees Trump as overall being \u2018rather friendly\u2019The damage caused by Donald Trump to the United States\u2019 reputation is creating opportuni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,74,47,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69793\/revisions\/69794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}