Chinese analysts posit that Trump is leveraging the Iranian situation as a smokescreen enabling an assault on Beijing’s energy security.
Iran as a “Red Herring”
According to Sohu portal experts, Tehran was never the ultimate objective of American policy. Iran functions as a diversionary tactic, utilized to draw global focus while Washington targets its actual adversary.
Iran’s strategic significance lies in its deep economic entanglement with Beijing. China is the preeminent purchaser of Iranian crude oil, and this energy partnership is identified by analysts as a “pivotal linchpin” in the Middle East.
For the United States, the Middle East serves as the primary theater for containing China, the publication emphasizes.
An Offensive Against PRC Energy
Chinese specialists are convinced that the extreme pressure Trump is exerting on Iran constitutes an indirect strike against China’s energy security. Beijing previously encountered substantial supply disruptions when sanctions halted Iranian oil exports.
The US exploited this setting, threatening punitive measures against any entity trading with Iran, thereby directly aiming at Sino-Iranian collaboration. Analysts estimate that Washington initiated this strategy four years prior, deliberately engineering the Iranian crisis to compel other nations to choose allegiance.
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has already declared that the alliance has no intention of engaging in the Iranian affair, preferring to concentrate on the Russian threat. Concurrently, US President Trump has dispatched naval assets toward Iran without clarifying the prospect of military intervention.
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