🇨🇳 🇮🇷 TOLD YOU SO: CHINA PUTS HEAT ON TEHRAN TO KEEP PEACE DEAL!...
Bill Mitchell@mitchellvii
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Jul 16, 2026
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🇨🇳 🇮🇷 TOLD YOU SO: CHINA PUTS HEAT ON TEHRAN TO KEEP PEACE DEAL!
Beijing just came out and told Tehran to knock it off. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the quiet part loud, calling on Iran and the US to follow through on their memorandum and avoid resorting to force.
This is not China suddenly loving America. This is China needing oil and shipping lanes to keep moving through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran playing with matches next to Beijing's economic lifeline. When your top oil supplier starts torching tankers, even the communists get nervous.
Xi himself leaned on the Saudis back in May to send Iran a message. Now his own Foreign Ministry is refusing to blame America alone for the violence, which is about as close to throwing Iran under the bus as Beijing gets in public.
Trump called Iran's leadership cuckoo and a bunch of scum, then said they are begging to make a deal. Maybe he is right that everyone, even China, is tired of Tehran's tantrums costing the whole world money.
Beijing just came out and told Tehran to knock it off. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the quiet part loud, calling on Iran and the US to follow through on their memorandum and avoid resorting to force.
This is not China suddenly loving America. This is China needing oil and shipping lanes to keep moving through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran playing with matches next to Beijing's economic lifeline. When your top oil supplier starts torching tankers, even the communists get nervous.
Xi himself leaned on the Saudis back in May to send Iran a message. Now his own Foreign Ministry is refusing to blame America alone for the violence, which is about as close to throwing Iran under the bus as Beijing gets in public.
Trump called Iran's leadership cuckoo and a bunch of scum, then said they are begging to make a deal. Maybe he is right that everyone, even China, is tired of Tehran's tantrums costing the whole world money.