Since the beginning of the US-Israeli war on Iran, some have claimed that Beijing’s support for Tehran is little more than empty rhetoric and symbolic statements. So what is the nature of the China-Iran alliance? Tehran-based journalist Navid Zarrinnal joins Amanda Yee to give a realistic breakdown of China-Iran relations, the significance of the Bishkek Declaration coming out of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, and why Beijing’s dismissal of Trump’s “economic D-day” sanctions represents a major defiance of the Washington-led order. Despite Beijing not meeting some critics’ expectations of a more direct role in supporting Iran during the war, Zarrinnal nevertheless bluntly states, “China did not bomb by neighborhood. Objectively if you have any sanity, you would understand that your enemy is not China. Your enemy is the US."

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