Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes on US military assets across the Middle East serve as a preview of how Beijing might target American bases in Asian countries in the event of a Taiwan Strait conflict, according to analysts.<\/p>\n
In retaliation for large-scale air attacks<\/a> by the US and Israel since February 28, Iran has launched missiles and drones at Gulf states that host US military bases and facilities, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.<\/p>\n Those targets included Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest US military base in the Middle East, which serves as the regional headquarters of the United States Central Command.<\/p>\n At least 11 American military bases or installations across the Middle East<\/a> have been damaged, around half of those in the region, according to a March 11 report by The New York Times, citing anonymous US officials.Analysts said the retaliatory strikes could serve as a template for a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing might consider actions against US allies hosting American military assets such as Japan<\/a>, the Philippines and South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThese moves by Iran against nearby US military bases in the Persian Gulf region do absolutely highlight the possibility that in a Taiwan scenario that China would likely target US bases throughout the Asia-Pacific region,\u201d said Lyle Goldstein, a senior fellow at Brown University\u2019s Watson School of International and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes on US military assets across the Middle East serve as a preview of how Beijing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[7921,7922,383,7924,7927,262,7928,359,7923,34,389,7926,49,39,5896,7925],"class_list":{"0":"post-14801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-al-udeid-air-base","9":"tag-asia-society-policy-institute","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brown-university","12":"tag-camp-humphreys","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-congressional-research-service","15":"tag-gulf","16":"tag-indo-pacific","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-kadena-air-base","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-persian-gulf","22":"tag-philippines","23":"tag-taiwan-strait"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116212193300590931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","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=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}