{"id":131635,"date":"2025-06-23T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131635"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:45:20","slug":"china-not-likely-to-use-navy-to-secure-hormuz-strait-analyst-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131635","title":{"rendered":"China not likely to use navy to secure Hormuz Strait, analyst says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is highly unlikely to use its navy to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz if Iran threatens to close it as Middle East tensions rise, a top US analyst told reporters Monday.<br \/>\nAlthough China depends heavily on Middle Eastern oil, its approach would be shaped by quiet negotiations and self-interest, not direct military intervention, Richard Fontaine, chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, said.<br \/>\nFontaine spoke at a CNAS press briefing on the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3315557\/china-not-seen-likely-use-navy-secure-hormuz-strait?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is highly unlikely to use its navy to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz if Iran threatens to close it as Middle East&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}