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For Washington’s Asia hands, the idea that the Iran war is turbocharging America’s already declining popularity in this region ought to be an uncontroversial statement of fact.

The reasons for this slide in goodwill are not hard to see. From middle-class Indian households forced to cook with coal amid , to inflation anxieties in Thailand and galloping petrol prices in Vietnam, people are feeling the knock-on effects of what is widely seen as a destabilising war of choice by the United States and Israel.