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[UKBengali]

I have no idea why users still think that Iran will ever get Pakistan like treatment in its military cooperation with China.

Pakistan is a part of the world order. Pakistan does not try to challenge Israel or the Jewish led Western order (a big no no in international diplomatic relations). Pakistan is aligned with the Sunni Saudi led Middle East. And lastly Pakistan represents a counterweight to India for China.

All these means it’s very simple for China to arm Pakistan without causing headaches for itself or facing loss of trade with other allies or get sanctioned by U.S.

Iran is radioactive on the world stage at this point. Too much baggage and problems for any country to want to strategically deal with them.

China does not much care about what "world" thinks anymore. It is a superpower in its own right now.

Problem is that Iran simply wants it both ways - China will support it more if it did not try to deal with west even after being bombed and having its leaders killed multiple times.


Without entering a formal alliance with China, then Chinese support will be more covert than overt.

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

China does not much care about what "world" thinks anymore. It is a superpower in its own right now.

China relies on exports. Being a superpower doesn’t mean you piss off the West and Arabs for bread crumbs from Iran.Go look up how much trade and military contracts China has with the Arabs.

China (Xi) will simply not rock the boat and open himself up to be pressured by the West for a country like Iran that doesn’t hold a lot of strategic value for China.

Anyway don’t want to get off topic on this matter in this thread.