{"id":153283,"date":"2026-06-21T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153283"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:30:05","slug":"chinas-iran-strategy-an-exercise-in-power-without-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153283","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying \u201cneutral\u201d with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable a year ago.<br \/>\nYet at the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, he credited Beijing \u2013 alongside Moscow \u2013 with preventing a full-blown catastrophe. His observation that China \u201ccould have sent in an oil ship with six destroyers alongside of it, on each side\u201d but chose restraint, captured the essence of Beijing\u2019s strategic&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3357650\/chinas-iran-strategy-exercise-power-without-projection?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 spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying \u201cneutral\u201d with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable&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\/153283"}],"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=153283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}