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China’s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection

South China Morning Post 21 June 2026 19h ago
China’s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection
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The spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying “neutral” with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable a year ago. Yet at the Group of Seven summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, he credited Beijing – alongside Moscow – with preventing a full-blown catastrophe. His observation that China “could have sent in an oil ship with six destroyer
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