China Decode: Is China Quietly Taking Control of the Iran Conflict?

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New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I don't think that either the US or Israel is going to be keen to allow China to take a leading role in a peace process in this Iran war or the war in the Gulf. It's just too important for the US and Israel. They don't want China to be playing a leading role in this regard. Yet I do think that this peace plan by China with Pakistan sort of taking the lead but China pulling the strings behind it is important.

And I think the reason for that is that it allows China yet again to claim the diplomatic high ground from the US. Welcome to China Decode. I'm Alice Hen. And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing

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