Iran War: It’s All About China
“The US went to war in Iran because Iran made itself a Chinese weapon,” argues policy analyst Zineb Riboua, a research fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.
Riboua is the founder of the China in MENA Project, which tracks Chinese influence and expansion across the Middle East and Africa.
Is there a bigger dimension to the Iran war that people are missing?
“We have this tendency to just look at the countries involved, … but there’s a big player, and the big player here is China. … China has been investing immensely in the region in the last two decades, in courting, in coordinating, in cooperating with Gulf countries, with Iran itself, and also with its proxies,” she says.
She is interviewed here on American Thought Leaders.
