HOW TRUMP’S IRAN ‘OWN GOAL’ IS HITTING LONG-TERM US STRATEGY TO CONTAIN CHINESE INFLUENCE

The United States has spent decades trying to blunt China’s 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’s influence in the region.

News - South China Morning Post reports that the United States has spent decades trying to blunt China’s strategic rise.

The report adds: Yet in the Middle East, sanctions and the war against Iran are now dismantling one of the few assets built to constrain Beijing’s influence in the region.

The 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…

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