{"id":17539,"date":"2011-01-20T06:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17539"},"modified":"2011-01-20T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:17:54","slug":"mixed-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17539","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Kieffer on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/katiekieffer.com\/2011\/01\/20\/we-kiss-we-fight-china\/\"> the mixed messages Obama is sending China<\/a> &#8211; aka &#8220;America&#8217;s Lienholder&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mixed messages are useful if we want confuse, frustrate or anger another country. They are not useful in diplomacy or relationship-building. Mixed messages are dangerous because they make the U.S. appear weak and untrustworthy.  Here are some of the mixed messages that we\u2019ve given China, our biggest debtor and whose central bank owns $896 billion in Treasury bonds:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, you think I&#8217;m doing to just paste the whole thing? \u00a0Read the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Kieffer on\u00a0 the mixed messages Obama is sending China &#8211; aka &#8220;America&#8217;s Lienholder&#8221;: Mixed messages are useful if we want confuse, frustrate or anger another country. They are not useful in diplomacy or relationship-building. Mixed messages are dangerous because they make the U.S. appear weak and untrustworthy. Here are some of the mixed messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17542,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions\/17542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}