Chinese Checkers & Trump’s Iran War
In the prevailing logic of great power competition, Iran seems to have a valuable function for China. For every dollar US spends, defending commercial shipping lanes in Red Sea, from Houthi anti-ship missiles, and for every multi-billion-dollar carrier strike group tethered to Persian Gulf, to deter Iranian aggression, there’s resource unavailable for deployment in Indo-Pacific. Read full story on TOI+
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