{"id":499035,"date":"2026-03-02T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:05:10","slug":"the-iran-strike-is-all-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499035\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Strike Is All About China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Epic Fury, this weekend\u2019s joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, has been widely described as an extraordinary assault on the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terror. That is true, but it misses a critical dimension. For years, Beijing has spent billions of dollars building Iran into a structural asset. By striking Iran directly, the Trump administration is dismantling, whether by design or by consequence, a pillar of China\u2019s regional architecture.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: This is all about China.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operation Epic Fury, this weekend\u2019s joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, has been widely described as an extraordinary assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-499035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}