Writing about China’s nonsupport for its supposed ally Iran, in the latter’s hour of need, PJ Media columnist Stephen Green shares this trenchant thought.
China doesn't have allies and it certainly doesn't have friends. China has rivals, trading partners, vassals, and chumps. Tehran might have thought they were Beijing's ally, but learned the hard way that they're just a source of oil.
Russia hasn’t been a lot of help either, tied down in Ukraine struggling unsuccessfully to defeat a country much less than half their size. Losing in combat hundreds of thousands of lives that, with Russia’s low birth rate, they will never replace.
