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China is your strategic partner, not your conscript. Beijing did not spend decades defending sovereignty and territorial integrity just to throw those principles away because Moscow wants company in a war of its own making. China has never supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea or eastern Ukraine. It has consistently acknowledged Russia’s security concerns over NATO expansion while remaining firm on the principle of territorial integrity. If China supported the dismemberment of another country today, the same logic would be weaponized tomorrow against the Taiwan Strait, Southern Tibet, Xinjiang and elsewhere. That is a bottom line China cannot compromise. Stalin had promised Soviet air support before China entered the Korean War. At the decisive moment, he backed away. China crossed the Yalu without the air cover it had been led to expect and faced a U.S.-led force with overwhelming air superiority. That betrayal was not a footnote. It shaped how China remembered the alliance. And spare me the mythology about Russia and NATO. Russia itself repeatedly explored joining the Western security order after the Cold War. China never did. So presenting Russia today as some eternal anti-NATO warrior is historical revisionism dressed up as self-consolation. Iran is different because Iran is the side being attacked. But China owes Iran nothing either. During COVID, Chinese citizens spontaneously donated more than 3 million yuan to Iran in a single day. And how did Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman for Iran’s Health Ministry, repay that goodwill? By publicly echoing attacks on China during the outbreak. Without Chinese demand, Chinese supply chains, Chinese trade and Chinese industrial capacity, neither Russia nor Iran would have had nearly the same economic room to withstand Western pressure. China has already done more than enough. So no. China owes Iran nothing. China owes Russia nothing. Sit by your own river and wait for your own corpses.