{"id":142424,"date":"2025-12-16T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142424"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:00:16","slug":"is-us-testing-the-waters-with-reported-seizure-of-chinese-cargo-bound-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142424","title":{"rendered":"Is US \u2018testing the waters\u2019 with reported seizure of Chinese cargo bound for Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe reported US seizure of a ship allegedly carrying Chinese-made dual-use components to Iran might signal Washington was \u201ctesting the waters\u201d on reviving an old tactic to pressure Beijing\u2019s ties with its adversaries, but such moves risked breaching international law, analysts said.<br \/>\nAn American special operations team boarded a ship from China bound for Iran in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka last month, The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday. Citing sources, it said the operation aimed to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3336545\/us-testing-waters-reported-seizure-chinese-cargo-bound-iran?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 PostThe reported US seizure of a ship allegedly carrying Chinese-made dual-use components to Iran might signal Washington was \u201ctesting the waters\u201d on reviving an&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\/142424"}],"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=142424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}