Chinese Companies Were Buying Sanctioned Iranian Oil — That Supply Is Now Disrupted
For years, Chinese independent refineries quietly purchased massive quantities of sanctioned Iranian crude oil at steep discounts, creating a...
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The Belt and Road Initiative’s Central Asian Route Runs Through Iranian Territory
Yes, the Belt and Road Initiative's Central Asian route runs directly through Iranian territory, and recent developments have made this connection more...
China Loses Its Most Important Energy Corridor Through Iran to the Persian Gulf
China has effectively lost its most important energy corridor through Iran to the Persian Gulf. The joint U.S.
Central Asian Countries Including Turkmenistan Share Borders With Iran
Of the five Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan — only Turkmenistan shares a direct land border...
The Houthis Have Been Attacking Shipping for Over a Year — Iran’s Collapse Changes Their Calculus
For more than a year, Yemen's Houthi rebels turned the Red Sea into one of the most dangerous shipping corridors on earth, attacking 178 vessels, sinking...
Trump’s Iran War Could Push Dozens of Countries Closer to China and Russia
A military conflict between the United States and Iran under a second Trump administration would almost certainly accelerate the global realignment...
Anti-American Sentiment Is Surging Across the Middle East and South Asia
Anti-American sentiment across the Middle East and South Asia has exploded into deadly violence following the coordinated US-Israel military strikes on...
America’s European Allies Did Not Sign Up for This War and Are Not Participating
America's European allies did not sign up for the war with Iran, and they are making that fact loudly and publicly clear.
China’s Global Position Strengthens Every Time America Opens a New Military Front
Every time the United States opens or escalates a military front abroad, China gains ground — not by firing a single shot, but by investing in its own...
The Iran War Creates New Demand for the Same Weapons America Was Shipping to Ukraine
The United States military is now burning through the same missile interceptors it has been sending to Ukraine, and the math does not work in anyone's...