Philip H. Gordon, War On The Rocks: Has Trump Driven China and Iran Together?
Recent reports that Iran and China are pursuing a long-term, economic and security partnership have set off alarm bells in the Trump administration, and rightly so. According to Iranian officials, the deal would vastly expand Chinese investments in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways, and dozens of other projects in exchange for Tehran supplying Beijing with discounted oil for the next 25 years. The deal would also potentially include joint military training, exercises, counter-terrorism cooperation, intelligence sharing, and arms transfers to Iran.
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WNU Editor: The above author believes this China - Iran alliance accelerated under President Trump. But this relationship/alliance has been ongoing way before President Trump even thought of running for the Presidency. From China selling missiles to Iran in 2011 .... China Is Selling Missiles To Iran In Violation Of UN Sanctions (November 3, 2011). Financial assistance in 2013 .... The Close Ties Between China And Iran (July 2, 2013). Banking assistance to the Revolutionary Guards in 2014 .... Report: Iran Uses Chinese Banks And Companies To Finance International Operations Of The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Elite Quds Force (November 18, 2014). Massive trade deal in 2016 .... Iran And China Have Agreed To A $600 Billion Trade Deal (January 23, 2016). Joint military exercises in 2017 .... Iran And China Conduct Joint Naval Exercises In The Strait Of Hormuz (June 19, 2017). President Trump did not drive China and Iran together. They were already together.
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He also drove Putin and Erdogan together, which in my opinion was a brilliant move as they constantly find themselves on the opposite ends of international conflicts.
I wonder what the Iranian voters think of this?
Triple Axis: China, Russia, Iran and Power Politics July 2018
New Threat to the U.S.: the Axis of Autocracy
- Doomberg April 2018
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the two neighboring nations have generally enjoyed very close cordial relations. Iran and Russia are strategic allies[3][4][5] and form an axis in the Caucasus alongside Armenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Russia_relations
Time for for some Leftwing hack to change the wiki entry
Triple-Axis: China, Russia, Iran and Power Politics
by Ariane Tabatabai, Dina Esfandiary
New emerging axis of Russia, China and Pakistan: regional .
https://dailytimes.com.pk/22563/new-emerging-axis-of-russia-china-and-pakistan-regional-implications/
Of google was a better search engine and not a tool of repression you could easily search for results between 2000 and 2016.
China's friends: Iran, north Korea
Friends of the US: too long to list
And the Iranians are not one who like being sold out and then insulted and told their mosques should come down and that religion will not be allowed in a Chinese ruled world. The picture is cute, but here's an easy prediction: the smiles won't last
only the devil cares
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