{"id":131942,"date":"2025-06-29T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131942"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:00:17","slug":"why-china-may-be-keeping-a-close-eye-as-trump-gets-drawn-into-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131942","title":{"rendered":"Why China may be keeping a close eye as Trump gets drawn into the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the US gets more entangled in the Israel-Iran conflict, China is likely to be keeping a close watch and picking up some clues on American interventionism in regional disputes.<br \/>\nAccording to one China watcher, Beijing may be a \u201clong-term beneficiary\u201d of the American retreat from stable leadership, as Washington\u2019s strikes on Iran have revealed it to be an uncertain and unpredictable global power.<br \/>\nMore significantly, the conflict has revealed Washington\u2019s reluctance to engage in a prolonged war,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3316221\/why-china-may-be-keeping-close-eye-trumps-middle-east-moves?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 PostAs the US gets more entangled in the Israel-Iran conflict, China is likely to be keeping a close watch and picking up some clues&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\/131942"}],"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=131942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}