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And joining us now is James Gory, author of The China Crisis and Epoch Times contributor.
Good afternoon, James.
>> Good afternoon.
How are you?
>> Good.
Good to have you with us.
Now, you wrote an article for the Epoch Times titled China's Notso Quiet Hand in Iran's war effort.
So, can you talk to us about how China is helping Iran in this war?
>> Sure.
They're they're providing material for war making for you maybe not necessarily weapons but the materials for weapons such as solid missile fuel uh components um they're supplying intelligence and some navigational and visuals and so for the war effort that's not necessarily directly you know they're not sending them missiles per se at this point.
So now can you walk us through how the Caspian Sea Quarter is being used in their practice in practice?
>> Well, sure.
It's the Caspian Sea is is a northern inland sea um that Russ borders on Russia and and um Iran and it's not a it's not policable by the US Navy.
So there's it's not subject to uh to u naval interdiction and surveillance so much as the state of Hormuz is.
So it's supplying material through different land bridges through Pakistan through uh their central Asian belt and road countries and then coming down through the either the Caspian Sea or cross land from say Iraq or other neighboring countries.
So there's a variety of ways they're getting it getting the material to Iran without having to go up through the straight of Hormuz and be subject to US Navy interdiction and inspection and so forth.
>> So how much would you say this Chinese sourced material actually matters to Iran?
And if it if the support stopped, what would that mean?
>> Well, it matters to Iran because Iran's goal is is duration to you.
Iran is very aware of they're not going to win the war militarily.
That's been established, but they will win.
They could win politically and they understand the US election cycle and they understand that um a lot of the political base in the country for President Trump is not in favor of an extended war.
So the longer this war goes on, the better it is for uh Iran.
And to that point, China's supply chain, it's as diverse and redundant and um you know, elusive as they provide it's providing Iran the ability to to carry on and to extend the war um the duration of the war and make it difficult for the US, make it difficult for the Trump administration.
So for China also is kind of the same reasoning by helping Iran that extends the war and hurts the US or is there any other reasons why China is helping?
>> Well, they want China wants the US to expend as much military and financial resources as it can make them do so.
Um because that that helps China in in in their initial region in the South China Sea with regard to Taiwan.
Uh, China is expanding its presence in the South China Sea in the Indo-Pacific region virtually unchallenged at this point because most of the US assets are in the Middle East.
>> Now, we know Iran was sort of preparing for this because before the war started, they they pretty much said we are ready.
So, how does Chinese involvement change Iran's strategy or were they involved from the beginning in your opinion?
I just think that went into this war not talking to um the customer that buys 90% of their oil.
So I I'm sure there was a conversation more than one strategizing on what to do at what point under what conditions and so forth.
So Iran's not going to give an inch and say that we were losing the war or we weren't ready or we caught off guard.
No, none of that.
The fact is is that Iran has maintained a a belligerent and uh resistant resilient attitude at least if not defenses in in the face of this onslaught from the US.
So there's no doubt in my mind that that they're conversing and have been and will continue to converse with China as well as Russia.
>> Now we know President Trump is planning to meet with Xiinping later in May in China.
So is China jeopardizing its relationship with the US by doing this?
And what what should we expect from this meeting?
>> Well, I think China most certainly is jeopardizing its relationship.
Um, as to use Trumpian terms, China doesn't hold that many cards.
The fact is is that China has lost its its foothold and its position in Venezuela, care of the Trump administration.
Now they're potentially losing a a tremendous source of of of oil.
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