{"id":154957,"date":"2026-08-26T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154957\/xi-signals-defiance-as-us-threatens-sanctions-over-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:04:13","slug":"xi-signals-defiance-as-us-threatens-sanctions-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154957\/xi-signals-defiance-as-us-threatens-sanctions-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Signals Defiance as US Threatens Sanctions Over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Xi Jinping\u2019s government is sending a message of defiance to\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0over China\u2019s economic ties with Iran.\u00a0Bloomberg's Michael Heath breaks down the options available to Donald Trump to strangle Iran's economy and end a conflict that's pulling US resources from Asia. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s government is sending a message of defiance to\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0over China\u2019s economic ties with Iran.\u00a0Bloomberg's Michael Heath breaks down the options available to Donald Trump to strangle Iran's economy and end a conflict that's pulling US resources from Asia. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}