{"id":150229,"date":"2026-04-23T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150229"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:30:29","slug":"as-us-iran-war-chokes-hormuz-can-central-asias-middle-corridor-rise-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150229","title":{"rendered":"As US-Iran war chokes Hormuz, can Central Asia\u2019s \u2018Middle Corridor\u2019 rise to the rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the US-Israeli war with Iran chokes off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the \u201cMiddle Corridor\u201d is being held up as a critical alternative lifeline linking East Asia to Europe.<br \/>\nAlso known as the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, the Middle Corridor is a multimodal logistics route that connects China and Europe via Kazakhstan in Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and Turkey.<br \/>\nWaqar Ahmad, president of Kazakhstan\u2019s Nazarbayev University,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3351191\/us-iran-war-chokes-hormuz-can-central-asias-middle-corridor-rise-rescue?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-Israeli war with Iran chokes off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the \u201cMiddle Corridor\u201d is being held up as a critical&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\/150229"}],"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=150229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}