{"id":154785,"date":"2026-07-18T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154785"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:06","slug":"weather-weapons-why-the-atmosphere-could-become-the-next-geopolitical-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154785","title":{"rendered":"Weather weapons: why the atmosphere could become the next geopolitical battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen devastating floods swept through Assam in northeastern India in 2018, the disaster quickly triggered a troubling question within New Delhi\u2019s security corridors: could control over the weather become a new tool of geopolitical pressure or warfare?<br \/>\nAs technology advances, could control over the weather become a tool of geopolitical pressure, or even a weapon?<br \/>\nMuch of the concern centred on neighbouring China. Assam\u2019s then finance minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, publicly warned about Beijing\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3360967\/weather-weapons-why-atmosphere-could-become-next-geopolitical-battleground?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 PostWhen devastating floods swept through Assam in northeastern India in 2018, the disaster quickly triggered a troubling question within New Delhi\u2019s security corridors: could&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\/154785"}],"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=154785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}