For decades, China has pursued a quiet, calculated ascent to global dominance. It has done so not just through economic manipulation and military expansion, but by cultivating strategic alliances with rogue regimes that share a deep disdain for Western democracy.

One of the most important, yet underappreciated, of these relationships is China’s bond with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The implications of this alliance, especially now as Iran teeters on the brink of internal collapse, are not just regional. They are global.

And they may shape the outcome of a new, emerging world order.

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