{"id":568250,"date":"2026-04-06T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:38:13","slug":"opinion-these-eurasian-middle-powers-are-newly-strategic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568250\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | These Eurasian middle powers are newly strategic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AAPXAS3BLBAEPJ5I4LXCT7BEGE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ken Moriyasu, a former correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, is a senior fellow for greater Asia at the Hudson Institute.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B7K5HMJDSJGZDG3OUAEIUY7R4I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The closure of the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 cutting off roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s seaborne oil \u2014 has exposed the fragility of maritime choke points and dramatically boosted the strategic value of overland energy routes across Eurasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Moriyasu, a former correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, is a senior fellow for greater Asia at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,217596,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-568250","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-partner-exclude","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568250","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=568250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}