US EditionChina Used Iran and Others for Years to Distract the West, and That’s About to Change
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China Used Iran and Others for Years to Distract the West, and That’s About to Change
Commentary For the better part of the past decade, China’s leadership has operated on a single strategic assumption: that the West is in decline. Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s foreign policy has been built around that premise. The objective wasn’t to confront the United States directly, but to construct a geopolitical perimeter that would constrain American power and distract Western attention. Russia would pressure Europe through war in U…
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How the War in Iran Could Help China and Change Asia
American officials have said for years that they would prioritize the Indo-Pacific. Now they’re moving warships, missiles and air defenses out for a war in the Middle East
While the US bombards Iran with missiles, the leaders of China and North Korea are quietly drawing conclusions. Instead of a swift operation in Iran, the United States has been mired for almost two weeks in a war that has engulfed countries across the Middle East. Meanwhile, American troops are rapidly depleting their weapons stockpiles and redeploying air defenses from Europe and Asia. Could the weakening of US forces free up China and North Ko…
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