{"id":150524,"date":"2026-04-29T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150524"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:00:18","slug":"us-economic-gap-over-china-to-widen-but-iran-might-bring-them-closer-former-un-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150524","title":{"rendered":"US economic gap over China to widen, but Iran might bring them closer: former UN official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe economic divide between the United States and China is projected to widen to US$11 trillion by the end of the decade, yet escalating geopolitics \u2013 specifically the war in Iran and the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis \u2013 could inadvertently act as a stabilising force for bilateral ties, according to a prominent global strategist.<br \/>\nKishore Mahbubani, former president of the UN Security Council and once a top diplomat from Singapore, has forecast that the gross-domestic-product disparity between&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3351732\/us-economic-gap-over-china-widen-iran-might-bring-them-closer-former-un-official?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 economic divide between the United States and China is projected to widen to US$11 trillion by the end of the decade, yet escalating&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\/150524"}],"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=150524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}