{"id":12716,"date":"2026-05-10T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/10\/why-war-on-iran-may-be-accelerating-end-of-us-hegemony-and-damaging-stargate-south-china-morning-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:11:33","slug":"why-war-on-iran-may-be-accelerating-end-of-us-hegemony-and-damaging-stargate-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/10\/why-war-on-iran-may-be-accelerating-end-of-us-hegemony-and-damaging-stargate-south-china-morning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Why war on Iran may be \u2018accelerating end of US hegemony\u2019 and damaging Stargate &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$500 billion Stargate AI project is being undermined by <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=breadcrumb&#038;pgtype=article?module=inline&#038;pgtype=article\" title data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\">the war with Iran<\/span><\/a>, a conflict that is accelerating the decline of the United States, according to Chinese analysts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3326619\/openai-expands-stargate-five-new-data-centre-sites-across-us?module=inline&#038;pgtype=article\" title data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\">The project<\/span><\/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.<\/p>\n<p>A critical component of this plan was building the world\u2019s largest AI data centre cluster in the <a target=\"_self\" 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&#038;pgtype=article\" title data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\">United Arab Emirates<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">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\">\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\">\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<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s US$500 billion Stargate AI project is being undermined by the war with Iran, a conflict that is accelerating the decline of the United States, according to Chinese analysts. 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