{"id":77053,"date":"2026-04-15T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/15\/china-us-iran-war-risks-energy-economy"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:45:12","slug":"short-term-gains-for-china-from-us-iran-war-may-turn-to-longer-term-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77053","title":{"rendered":"Short-term gains for China from US-Iran war may turn to longer-term pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing may be reaping some diplomatic benefit but Trump\u2019s war holds risks for its energy security and economy<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/08\/chinas-foreign-minister-says-iran-war-should-never-have-happened\">promised<\/a> it would be a \u201cbig year\u201d for China-US relations. He was right, but perhaps not in the way he expected.<\/p>\n<p>Wang was speaking before a planned visit by the US president to Beijing in March, which would have been Donald Trump\u2019s first trip to China since 2017. But the trip, and a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was kicked back by several weeks after Trump decided to launch strikes with Israel against Iran, starting a war in the Middle East that has caused a global energy crisis and roiled diplomatic relations across the board.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/15\/china-us-iran-war-risks-energy-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing may be reaping some diplomatic benefit but Trump\u2019s war holds risks for its energy security and economyTwo months ago, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, promised it would be a \u201cbig year\u201d for China-US relations. He was right, but perhaps not in &#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":[41,50,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77053","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=77053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77054,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77053\/revisions\/77054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}