Nikki Haley reminds us why we are fortunate that she is no longer representing our country at the U.N.:
Iran and China have recently taken their alliance a step further. Last year, they finalized a “strategic partnership” that commits Beijing to investing $400 billion in Iran over 25 years. In exchange, China will get long-term access to discounted Iranian crude supplies and deepen its presence in Iran’s ports, railways, telecommunications and elsewhere. The agreement also strengthens their military ties.
Haley is wrong to say that Iran and China have an “alliance.” The agreement she cites creates nothing of the kind, and China already has more significant economic relationships with Iran’s neighbors and rivals than it has with Iran. She credulously repeats a $400 billion figure that seems to be based on nothing. A few early reports included this bogus figure, and then it has been repeated despite the fact that it makes no sense. Bill Figueroa explained this last year:
Third, the terms of the document itself have been greatly exaggerated. The quoted figure, four hundred billion dollars, seems extraordinarily unlikely given China and Iran’s current economic capabilities and the impact of international sanctions. Claims that Chinese military personnel will be stationed in Iran are similarly dubious. Doing so would also be nearly impossible given the Iranian public’s long-standing hostility to the presence of foreign armies and the legacy of repeated British and Russian occupations. The Chinese and Iranian press have also been silent on the news, and Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zanganeh denied that such massive investment was incoming. According to Scita, the head of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce, also referred to the report as “a joke.” It seems clear that no massive investment is forthcoming.
So much for the grand Sino-Iranian alliance. Haley and the other hawks at the misnamed United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) are not interested in accuracy. They will latch on to any claim, no matter how false, to bolster their fearmongering about Iran and China. Haley wants to exaggerate the significance of Iran-China ties to build support for taking a harder line against both, and in the process she confirms once again that Iran hawks in general and UANI in particular have no interest in resolving the nuclear issue. They prefer to keep it around so that they can demagogue it and use it as an excuse for more coercive policies.
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Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
Sick of her long time ago. But China and Iran bear watching. No confidence in Alzheimer’s Joe.Iran and China have recently taken their alliance a step further. Last year, they finalized a “strategic partnership” that commits Beijing to investing $400 billion in Iran over 25 years. In exchange, China will get long-term access to discounted Iranian crude supplies and deepen its presence in Iran’s ports, railways, telecommunications and elsewhere. The agreement also strengthens their military ties.
I hope so.
Haley is wrong to say that Iran and China have an “alliance.”
File under; Self Fulfilling Prophesy.
Don’t be naive, Amerikkka is not satisfied with only an Economic War with China. What the US and Israel want is a REAL WAR !!!
Will Haley have a job if training and educations and skills are taken into account? What can the gang members do to earn livelihood? What can the beggars with some military service and homelessness can do to survive? In America ,these classes and the drug dealers pose serious problems about employability . To this class one can safely add the war mongers. Without war, without a possibility of a war, without the polemics to assert the need for war, and without the words screaming for continuation of war ,Hailey has no viable option to feel content and make money or gather for safety nests .She is cognizant of the reality that her celebrity status as wise patriot and nationalist is over and she will be forced to eke out livelihood by focussing on the essence of what America needs ie getting rid of war, reducing defense budget, stanching Pentagon wastefulness, and focus on removing drug from the street homelessness from the street, providing dues to the veterans, and sending the gang backs from the countries tehy come from and shutting the border on the south and start building for USA’s industrial capacity. She will be forced to condemn Modi ands ilk’s political branches here in USA .
You probably are unaware of the Russia China Double Helix 🧬 that has been a Geostrategic Alliance since 1999. Iran has been a Silent Partner for most of the 22 years this Alliance, which has transitioned into a Military Alliance over the last several years. Now The Borg wants to go to War with this Alliance. They are Delusional and if they aren’t stopped they are going to get all of us killed.
http://thesaker.is/vineyard-of-the-saker-white-paper-the-china-russia-double-helix/