{"id":14673,"date":"2013-10-07T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14673"},"modified":"2013-10-07T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:45:10","slug":"china-warns-u-s-about-debt-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/07\/china-warns-u-s-about-debt-default\/","title":{"rendered":"China warns U.S. about debt default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>USA Today<\/em> has the brief story <a title=\"USA Today article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2013\/10\/07\/obama-china-debt-ceiling-default\/2936165\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>China warns U.S. about debt default<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;We hope the United States fully understands the lessons of history,&#8217; Zhu said, referring to a deadlock in 2011 that led to a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating to &#8220;AA+&#8221; from &#8220;AAA&#8221; by agency Standard &amp; Poors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last big confrontation over the debt ceiling, in August 2011, ended with an eleventh-hour agreement under pressure from shaken markets and warnings of an economic catastrophe if a default were allowed to happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First it was Russia telling us how to avoid war, and now the Chinese government is explaining to us how to run a capitalist economy.<\/p>\n<p>How dare they?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t the USA the best capitalist country in the world?\u00a0 Maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has the brief story China warns U.S. about debt default. &#8220;&#8216;We hope the United States fully understands the lessons of history,&#8217; Zhu said, referring to a deadlock in 2011 that led to a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating to &#8220;AA+&#8221; from &#8220;AAA&#8221; by agency Standard &amp; Poors. &#8220;The last big confrontation over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14674,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}