{"id":144585,"date":"2026-01-21T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144585"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:30:13","slug":"will-irans-instability-force-china-to-rethink-its-middle-east-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144585","title":{"rendered":"Will Iran\u2019s instability force China to rethink its Middle East strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIran\u2019s streets have once again become a site of uncertainty, but this time the tremors extend far beyond its borders. Unrest that began in late December spread across multiple provinces and continued into January. It was met with a level of repression that has only deepened public anger.<br \/>\nWhat sets this moment apart is not just the scale of repression, but the way sustained instability is beginning to undermine long-held assumptions among Iran\u2019s external partners, especially China.<br \/>\nFor years,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/asia-opinion\/article\/3340436\/will-irans-instability-force-china-rethink-its-middle-east-strategy?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 PostIran\u2019s streets have once again become a site of uncertainty, but this time the tremors extend far beyond its borders. Unrest that began in&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\/144585"}],"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=144585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}