China’s President Xi Jinping has damaged a six-week silence concerning the warfare in Iran, vowing to take a “constructive” position in efforts to finish the battle. Beijing is cautious of being drawn right into a warfare it took no half in, and faces a fragile balancing act between its long-term partnership with Iran and its strategic pursuits within the Center East and past. Yuka Royer speaks with Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist on the Nationwide College of Singapore, about what’s behind Beijing’s calculations.
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