WASHINGTON – The war with Iran is having a worldwide impact that’s being felt all the way to China. That’s because China imports most of its oil from Tehran. But there is debate over what impact the war is having beyond oil. One expert sees the Trump Doctrine undermining China’s plan for world domination.
As the U.S. military bombards Iranian targets, the world watches and waits to see how it will all end. China, the top adversary of the United States, has a lot riding on the outcome.
China expert Gordon Chang, author of Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America, says while oil gets most of the attention, he believes the broader implications are much larger. Chang sees a more sinister force between the two countries because China helped Iran build key parts of its nuclear program by working through Pakistan’s “father of the nuclear bomb.”
Chang said, “For instance, Iran obtained its centrifuges through the A.Q. Khan black-market network in Pakistan. But A.Q. Khan was really a pawn for China, because he was selling Chinese technology—and Beijing knew what he was doing. So you can say that Iran’s nuclear program is essentially China’s program transplanted to the Gulf region.”
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“Iran also has many Chinese weapons. Inside Iranian systems, you find Chinese components, especially microchips, either made in China or shipped to Iran through Chinese intermediaries,” he further explained.
The Trump administration says Iran’s refusal to stop its nuclear ambitions by enriching uranium and building more ballistic missiles led to the current conflict. Chang says that defiance is due to Iran’s alliance with China to keep conflict alive against the U.S. and Israel, using proxies throughout the Middle East.
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