{"id":106436,"date":"2026-05-10T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:24:10","slug":"why-trumps-war-on-iran-may-be-accelerating-end-of-us-hegemony-and-damaging-stargate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106436\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s war on Iran may be \u2018accelerating end of US hegemony\u2019 and damaging Stargate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$500 billion Stargate AI project is being undermined by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=breadcrumb&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the war with Iran<\/a>, a conflict that is accelerating the decline of the United States, according to Chinese analysts.<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3326619\/openai-expands-stargate-five-new-data-centre-sites-across-us?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The project<\/a>, designed to cement US dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, was announced in January last year, shortly after Trump\u2019s return to power, and involves leading companies such as OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle.A critical component of this plan was building the world\u2019s largest AI data centre cluster in the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3310545\/uae-build-biggest-ai-campus-outside-us-trump-deal-bypassing-past-china-worries?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Li Wei, associate dean of the school of international relations at Renmin University, said the war had struck at the heart of the policy after Iran attacked data centres in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTrump\u2019s first priority upon taking office was the Stargate project,\u201d Li told the China Macroeconomy Forum in Beijing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLast May, he visited the Middle East specifically to ground this project in the region. Currently, Iran\u2019s attacks on computing centres in the UAE have cast uncertainty over Stargate\u2019s Middle Eastern expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$500 billion Stargate AI project is being undermined by the war with Iran, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10279,614,262,9107,34,49,15164,36783,18807,11165,36784,21613,101,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-106436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-myanmar","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-oracle","17":"tag-renmin-university","18":"tag-softbank","19":"tag-stargate","20":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","21":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116549796740430003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}