{"id":144397,"date":"2026-01-18T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144397"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:00:13","slug":"did-china-russia-iran-joint-naval-drills-in-south-africa-mark-notable-brics-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144397","title":{"rendered":"Did China, Russia, Iran joint naval drills in South Africa mark notable Brics shift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLast week\u2019s naval drills involving China, Russia, Iran and host country South Africa signalled a notable shift for Brics beyond its traditional focus on economic cooperation, analysts said, as the US noted it had closely monitored the exercise.<br \/>\nHowever, observers also described the high-profile exercise as largely symbolic, calling it a diplomatic statement of intent rather than a step towards a formal military alliance.<br \/>\nThe Will for Peace 2026 drills were launched at a port in Cape Town on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3340269\/did-china-russia-iran-joint-naval-drills-south-africa-mark-notable-brics-shift?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 PostLast week\u2019s naval drills involving China, Russia, Iran and host country South Africa signalled a notable shift for Brics beyond its traditional focus on&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\/144397"}],"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=144397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}