President Masoud Pezeshkian has voiced Iran’s readiness for “serious and constructive” cooperation with China, particularly within the framework of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ahead of his planned visit to China later this month.
China’s response is not symmetric. The current situation is that China has choked off rare earths supply to the US and has been cutting off key imports from US entirely. For example, US farmers are now in a crisis because China switched to buying soy beans from Brazil. China has also cut out US energy imports in record time. China is also looking to cut out Nvidia chips.
The point here is that China’s dependence on the west is far lower than vice versa. If trade was halted between the US and China then the US economy would literally collapse within months. Meanwhile, for China it would be at most an inconvenience. Your premise that there would be factory closures and job losses is based on the notion that China isn’t able to redirect trade and increase domestic consumption. However, we can already see that China’s exports beat expectations in July. The reality is that the west is fighting a trade war with the whole world, which pushes countries outside the west to do more trade with China. Modi visiting China right now is a prime example of this dynamic.
If 18% of total exports are US and Germany, who is going to replace that market? T
The US and Germany are not in a position to cut out Chinese exports. This is why Trump has been consistently extending his tariffs break on China. Meanwhile, it’s pretty clear that the rest of the world is not in fact at maximum capacity as evidenced by China’s soaring exports outside the west.
Well then why aren’t China and Russia doing so?
What aren’t China and Russia doing exactly? Both are trading with Iran defying western sanctions, and both are supplying Iran with military tech. Neither China or Russia has any interest in Iran developing nuclear weapons. This has fuck all to do with JCPOA or any western demands.
What help did China and Russia offer Iran during the recent war with Israel?
why did they not go in and shoot down Israeli aircraft over Iran?
Because Iran is a sovereign country and they didn’t ask them to do that? I love how you just take all agency away from Iran here.
Why did they not attempt to stop direct US offensive intervention in bombing Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz? By all accounts Iran was left on it’s own here.
China’s response is not symmetric. The current situation is that China has choked off rare earths supply to the US and has been cutting off key imports from US entirely. For example, US farmers are now in a crisis because China switched to buying soy beans from Brazil. China has also cut out US energy imports in record time. China is also looking to cut out Nvidia chips.
The point here is that China’s dependence on the west is far lower than vice versa. If trade was halted between the US and China then the US economy would literally collapse within months. Meanwhile, for China it would be at most an inconvenience. Your premise that there would be factory closures and job losses is based on the notion that China isn’t able to redirect trade and increase domestic consumption. However, we can already see that China’s exports beat expectations in July. The reality is that the west is fighting a trade war with the whole world, which pushes countries outside the west to do more trade with China. Modi visiting China right now is a prime example of this dynamic.
The US and Germany are not in a position to cut out Chinese exports. This is why Trump has been consistently extending his tariffs break on China. Meanwhile, it’s pretty clear that the rest of the world is not in fact at maximum capacity as evidenced by China’s soaring exports outside the west.
What aren’t China and Russia doing exactly? Both are trading with Iran defying western sanctions, and both are supplying Iran with military tech. Neither China or Russia has any interest in Iran developing nuclear weapons. This has fuck all to do with JCPOA or any western demands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202503044006
Because Iran is a sovereign country and they didn’t ask them to do that? I love how you just take all agency away from Iran here.
See above.