{"id":599637,"date":"2026-08-29T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599637\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:30:09","slug":"chinas-middle-east-policy-at-a-crossroads-6-months-into-us-israeli-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599637\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Middle East policy at a crossroads 6 months into US-Israeli war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The war has forced Gulf leaders to face the reality that neither the United States nor China is able to protect them from attacks by Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Wednesday, the Iranian army warned that any \u201cpossible future war\u201d with the United States could spread across the region and target energy and communications infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the face of such threats, Gulf states have been seeking new defensive partners.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Thursday, Kuwait signed a military cooperation agreement with Pakistan, which promised to provide training and boost the city state\u2019s defensive capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The war has forced Gulf leaders to face the reality that neither the United States nor China is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1585,5560,1657,83420,42,87,46,6606,47,43,338,78,3336,40,38,41,39,1582,1032,187791,8429],"class_list":["post-599637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-gulf-states","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-kuwait","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-wang-yi","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}