{"id":152078,"date":"2026-05-27T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152078"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:00:05","slug":"as-iran-war-stokes-water-security-fears-central-asia-could-turn-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152078","title":{"rendered":"As Iran war stokes water security fears, Central Asia could turn to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCentral Asia is tilting more decisively towards China as geopolitical uncertainty deepens, with Beijing\u2019s expanding influence recasting the former Soviet states\u2019 strategic orientation. In the first of a three-part series, Laura Zhou looks at how vulnerabilities laid bare by the Iran war might make the region look to China for water security.<br \/>\nThe US-Israel war on Iran has crippled global supply chains, choking off the world\u2019s energy supply alongside reserves of critical commodities like&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3355019\/iran-war-stokes-water-security-fears-central-asia-could-turn-china?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 PostCentral Asia is tilting more decisively towards China as geopolitical uncertainty deepens, with Beijing\u2019s expanding influence recasting the former Soviet states\u2019 strategic orientation. 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\/152078"}],"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=152078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}