{"id":155190,"date":"2026-07-27T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155190"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:00:18","slug":"how-trumps-iran-own-goal-is-hitting-long-term-us-strategy-to-contain-chinese-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155190","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Iran \u2018own goal\u2019 is hitting long-term US strategy to contain Chinese influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States has spent decades trying to blunt China\u2019s strategic rise. Yet in the Middle East, sanctions and the war against Iran are now dismantling one of the few assets built to constrain Beijing\u2019s influence in the region.<br \/>\nThe Iranian port of Chabahar has received strong backing from India, which hoped it would gain both a trade corridor into Afghanistan and Central Asia that bypassed Pakistan and a strategic counterweight to the Chinese-operated Pakistani port of Gwadar.<br \/>\nBoth Washington&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3361869\/how-trumps-iran-own-goal-hitting-long-term-us-strategy-contain-chinese-influence?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 United States has spent decades trying to blunt China\u2019s strategic rise. Yet in the Middle East, sanctions and the war against Iran are&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\/155190"}],"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=155190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}