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Fantastic talk. Zhang suggests that Chinaโs strategic patience is a function of the previous generationโs pro-Western Dengist consensus that placed economic development above strategic interests. The new generation has much greater appetite for resistance.
He suggests that the trigger that forces the Chinese out of their low-energy ground state will be Western color revolution-style meddling in Asia, above all, China itself.
The Chinese are beginning to realize, he points out further, that itโs better to fight the US when the US is militarily engaged in both Europe and West Asia.
Finally, he says that the Israeli entrapment guarantees that the US will never be able to leave West Asia. This is advantageous for China. And since Iran is the power able and willing to threaten Israel, China has a very strong interest in Iranian survival and power.
China has avoided alliances, but what the United States is doing to Iran and Palestine leaves Beijing little choice. The Dengists are losing internally and this is giving way to a whole new wave of Maoists inside the Chinese political system. They are young, (fashionable,) and they are done with trying to appease US imperialism.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang examines the competing traditions shaping Chinaโs Middle East policy, contrasting Maoist solidarity with Dengist economic priorities. Using Palestine and Iran, he explores Beijingโs political commitments, trade relationships, public opinion and diplomatic constraints. He argues that regional conflict is challenging Chinaโs balancing strategy and strengthening Iranโs strategic importance. The discussion considers boycotts, Gulf investment, energy security, generational differences and strategic patience, asking what might push Beijing toward a clearer position as regional power shifts and tensions with Washington deepen.
Sheng's Links:
Sheng's Article on China-Iran Relations: muse.jhu.edu/article/991335
Association for Global Political Thought profile: globalpoliticalthought.hsiteโฆ
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Time Stamps
00:00 Chinaโs competing foreign-policy traditions
04:43 Xi Jinping and the Middle East
06:37 Gaza and Chinese public opinion
13:43 Trade with Israel and the Haifa dilemma
15:48 Iran, Gulf trade and diplomatic tensions
18:54 War and Chinaโs reassessment of Iran
28:57 Discussion: boycotts, Gaza and Gulf investment
44:11 Energy, younger generations and strategic patience
#China #Geopolitics #Iran #Imperialism #Neutrality
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The main force that would keep Schumer/Jeffries in leadership is money (read: corruption).
So many DC people (lobbyists, staff, think tankers etc) and corporations make so much cash off their connections to these guys. Itโs effectively a multibillion-dollar machine behind them.
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This โcrony capitalismโ nonsense is going to be regurgitated by liberals and now conservatives to endlessly do reforms. There is no such thing as โcrony capitalismโ โ itโs literally just capitalism.
Actually existing capitalism.
Ron DeSantis explains why the GOP "screaming socialism" doesn't work anymore:
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that? Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist republicans who propagate these crony policies. The average person is seeing that and saying, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry. What about having a competitive market? ... Young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society"
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This would be perfectly legal for Iran to do btw. If you allow your territory to be used to commit aggression against another state, you are the aggressor too
This is big!
Iran has named up to 15 Western bases across nine countries, Ramstein in Germany, RAF Fairford in Britain, sites in Italy and Greece, as targets IF Trump uses them to strike Iran.
The order from the Supreme Leader is from Iran updating its previosuly declared 10 military doctrines, now making it 11 military doctrines for a response with "No Geographic limit"... See my latest YouTube Episode #3 where I deep dive into all 11 doctrines.
This is a "conditional" threat.
Iran strikes those bases ONLY if Trump and USA hits it from these bases first, which makes it a deterrent rather than a war plan.
Iran cannot trade blows with the United States directly, so it moves the risk onto the coalition's hosts instead.
It puts a quiet question to Germany, Britain, Italy and Greece. Is lending your soil to an American strike worth becoming a target yourself?
That is "deterrence by punishment" aimed at the weakest links in the chain. Iran gains more from Germany picturing a strike on Ramstein than from carrying one out.
The goal is hesitation, a government and a public that think twice before the base is used. Peel one host away and the strike architecture gets harder to run.
European officials say there is "no imminent" threat. Based on Iran's demonstrated and declared missile capabilities, Iran can reach the European continent.
None of this is improvised. It follows Iran's OWN military doctrine step by step.
I break down why Iran escalates to exactly this, through the 11 military doctrines of Iran and a game theory lens, in my latest video.
See full video YouTube video in comments below.
Signal, not noise!
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๐ซ๐ท French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mรฉlenchon pledged Saturday that, if elected, French navy ships would escort citizen flotillas trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza โif necessary."
"We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mรฉlenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election.
He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, ร la fois contre le gรฉnocide ร Gaza et contre lโannexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires franรงais, sโil le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisรฉs pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous nโacceptons pas lโannexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrรจtement la mobilisation contre lโextension des cruautรฉs aux communautรฉs chrรฉtiennes assiรฉgรฉes, persรฉcutรฉes en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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To much Hollywood is not good, my people.
This paper tiger military deceived the world for years into believing that itโs omnipotent, while the whole time it was just relying on traitors to sellout their countries.
Most times they blackmail people into betraying their own countries.
Looks like this time thereโs no one to blackmail in Iran, and they resorted to offering an open reward.
Also, didnโt they obliterate these nuclear facilities like a thousand times before?
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $20 million and possible relocation for information about Iranโs nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment, and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community, or the movement of any of the above.
Submit a tip: rewardsforjustice.net/rewardโฆ
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SEA governments should ban the data centres too. Why are we always eating up the garbage thrown from the western world
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if this gets greenlit i better not hear any news about data centers being built in southeast asia due to america AI ban which restrictions only apply on their land thank you very much
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my mom who doesnt know shit about video games (and who hates to see me plays fps) laughed at this btw, clip of the year theres no debate
iran war were never popular since the beginning from the eyes of rakyat murica. since the end of iraq-afhanistan, they hate war (not their gov tho)
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Democrats won back Congress on a promise to fight corruption. Keeping that promise means setting a high standard of transparency for ourselves.
A meeting about our party's future belongs in full view of the press.
๐จNEWS: Top Dems are heading to a conference with a shadowy billionaire front group @MajorityDems - and the group is now barring access to @LeverNews reporters as punishment for our investigative series exposing the group's funders.
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CNN Panelist: "The reason why affordability works and Zohran's style of governing has become popular is because centrist Dems failed over and over and over again..."
