{"id":76978,"date":"2026-04-09T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/who-can-claim-victory-iran-ceasefire-china"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:22:58","slug":"who-can-claim-victory-if-iran-ceasefire-holds-an-early-winner-is-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76978","title":{"rendered":"Who can claim victory if Iran ceasefire holds? An early winner is China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s powerbrokers are credited with winning Iran over, although one analyst says they were \u2018pushing an open door\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/iran-war-ceasefire-live-strait-of-hormuz-israel-strikes-middle-east-crisis-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the world struggles to make sense of what, if anything, was achieved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/trump-iran-war-ceasefire\">ceasefire deal<\/a> announced by the US and Iran on Tuesday, one major power that stands to win regardless is China.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s powerbrokers are being credited with pushing Iran towards agreeing to the ceasefire, bolstering its status as a regional mediator. In China\u2019s tightly censored domestic media, articles basking in the glory of China being the grown-up in the room at a time of international crisis were allowed to circulate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/who-can-claim-victory-iran-ceasefire-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s powerbrokers are credited with winning Iran over, although one analyst says they were \u2018pushing an open door\u2019Middle East crisis \u2013 live updatesAs the world struggles to make sense of what, if anything, was achieved by the ceasefire deal announc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,448,1005,212,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76979,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions\/76979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}