China has reportedly intensified diplomatic pressure on Iran to ensure the Strait of Hormuz remains open for international shipping.
The waterway, a critical chokepoint for global energy trade, has come under threat following US and ‘Israeli’ strikes against Iran, prompting Tehran to warn of potential closures and attacks on vessels.
Senior executives from Chinese state-owned gas companies, according to Bloomberg, said that Beijing is actively engaging Iranian officials to prevent disruptions to oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, particularly from Qatar and other Gulf suppliers.
Didn’t read the link, did you? Classic. China is already supplying Iran with advanced radar, Beidou satellite access, rocket precursors, and dual-use components for SAM sites and drones. That is not “empty words”, that is tangible military hardware moving right now. But sure, keep screaming “actions not words” while ignoring the actual actions you were too lazy to click. Cope harder.
You genuinely think slapping rare earth restrictions during a trade spat is the same as cutting off the US and Israel cold in a wartime ultimatum? One is calibrated economic pressure, the other is lighting the fuse on WW3. Did you think your reply through at all?
Also wild that you demand China “prove” support by throwing citizens into a US-proxy meatgrinder. China already handed the US military its first strategic defeat in Korea with volunteers and bolt-action rifles when America had nukes and industry at its absolute peak. Today? China’s defensive industrial base outproduces the US in drones, rockets, ships, and jets. In a non-nuclear defensive war, China absolutely wins. And if you are still daydreaming about the US “coming after China militarily”, maybe google DF-61 before you type.
Lastly, spare me the lecture on “supporting oppressed nations” from someone whose entire foreign policy knowledge comes from Western headlines. China lifted 800 million people out of poverty, builds ports and railways across the Global South without colonial strings or regime-change footnotes. China has done more for oppressed nations than any other group or nation that still exists. Again I say cope harder.
People want China to singlehandedly save the world instead of looking at their own governments’ complicity and criminality, it’s so frustrating.
I just wish people would think through their positions for longer than it takes to just type them before China bad posting.
Yeah, we’re leftists, we’re supposed to analyze reality on material grounds, but too many still seem unable to wake up from western propaganda and/or chauvinism. Thank you for responding with facts and using sources.
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Cognitive dissonance. Looking at their own government means acknowledging all the ways they themselves are complicit. Plus, Americans are largely programmed from birth to defer to authority figures. That’s largely not true of Europeans, or at least not by the same mechanisms, so I don’t know what their excuse is.
EDIT: I’m agreeing with you, by the way, in case that wasn’t clear.