Beijing’s significant oil imports mean an attack on Tehran can be used as an indirect means of containment
The prospect of a war against Iran is often discussed as a regional contingency tied to the Gulf, Israel, and the architecture of deterrence in the Middle East. Yet the deeper logic that makes the Iranian situation persistently explosive is global rather than purely regional.
Iran sits where energy markets, maritime chokepoints, sanctions enforcement, and competing connectivity projects overlap, and that overlap intersects directly with the strategic competition between the United States and China. In this sense, the possibility of a…
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