{"id":5988,"date":"2024-04-24T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2024-04-27T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T03:33:37","slug":"5988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/04\/24\/5988\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a few days after the high-level visit by China to NK.\u00a0 But I\u2019m sure there is no connection, right?!\u00a0 NK missiles and weapons have long ended up with Iranian proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6970285\/north-korea-delegation-visits-iran-military-cooperation\/\">\u201cNorth Korea Sends Rare Delegation to Iran, Fueling Concerns of Military Cooperation,\u201d<\/a> Time, 4-24-24.\u00a0\u00a0See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/10\/china\/china-delegation-northkorea-zhao-leji-intl-hnk\/index.html\">\u201cChina is sending its highest-level delegation to North Korea since 2019 to kick off a \u2018friendship year\u2019,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 4-11-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/24\/iranian-women-violently-dragged-from-streets-by-police-amid-hijab-crackdown\">\u201cIranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown,\u201d<\/a> Guardian, 4-24-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2024\/04\/24\/how-iran-covered-up-the-damage-from-israels-strikes\">\u201cHow Iran covered up the damage from Israel\u2019s strikes,\u201d<\/a> Economist, 4-24-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/israel\/israels-next-front\">\u201cIsrael\u2019s Next Front? Iran, Hezbollah, and the Coming War in Lebanon,\u201d<\/a> Foreign Affairs, 4-24-24.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s press did not quote the Chinese Defense Chief.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/04\/26\/724408\/Iran-China-Ashtiani-Dong-Jun-Kazakhstan-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-SCO-Israel-Gaza-premises-Syria-airstrikes-cooperation-Operation-True-Promise\">\u201cIran, China discuss military cooperation; Beijing backs Tehran&#8217;s &#8216;legitimate&#8217; strikes against Israel,\u201d<\/a> PressTV, 4-24-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a few days after the high-level visit by China to NK.\u00a0 But I\u2019m sure there is no connection, right?!\u00a0 NK missiles and weapons have long ended up with Iranian proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas.\u00a0 \u201cNorth Korea Sends Rare Delegation to Iran, Fueling Concerns of Military Cooperation,\u201d Time, 4-24-24.\u00a0\u00a0See \u201cChina is sending its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/04\/24\/5988\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}