As sun tzu once said, “holy shit your enemy just elected literally the dumbest motherfucker on the planet and the rest of the government refuses to do anything about it. Buddy, you can literally just coast to victory, gg.”

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

That’s what happen with an ‘America first’ attitude. If a person has a ‘me first’ attitude, he won’t have many friends.

China just really out here waiting as the US accidentally demolishes itself, making way for a new hegemony

If I were Iran (I’m not, ftr) and China (also not), I would only offer safe passage to ships flying non-US-buddy flags and insured by a Chinese shipping insurer. In turn, the Chinese insurer insists on indemnity from sanctions until the Iran situation is concluded at the UN, to restore worldwide economic stability.

Safe passage for the rest would be pending the ceasefire & reparation negotiations (to be held in a public UN forum in NYC).

I shudder at the thought.

I think it’s in chinas best interest to align with Iran.

And Europe thinks it’s definitely in their self interest to not piss off China.

China had a good thing going with Iran. They want to keep it. They are typically very good at forming alliances.

No way will China flip on Iran for the U.S with all the tariff b.s and insults.