12:36 AM eastern US time, July 3, 2025 - President Xi Jinping of China just got on television in Beijing and, among other things, announced "Our strategic interests in the Middle East will no longer be threatened. We will stand with Iran."
This is a colossal development in geopolitical matters.
China, like every other nation on earth, understands that Israel started this trouble by making a SNEAK ATTACK upon Iran. Everyone also knows the USA entered the fray with another SNEAK ATTACK against Iranian nuclear sites. But that conflict did not go the way the Israelis or Americans thought it would.
It is widely understood that the only reason Israel stopped attacking Iran was because they were running out of anti-ballistic-missile defenses and on the final day of fighting, a full 50% of Iranian missiles were getting through, hitting targets inside Israel.
While Israel had more than adequate ability to continue OFFENSIVE action, they were ONE DAY away from having zero DEFENSIVE ability against Iranian ballistic missiles.
So they got US President Trump to work out a ceasefire to which Iran said "If Israel stops attacking us, we will stop attacking them." That was the "ceasefire."
In the days since, it is widely rumored that the conflict __IS__ going to resume, once Israel loads-up on missile defenses. Iran is aware of this, and is doing everything it can to prepare.
Complicating things further, all countries of the world also found out yesterday, the US is ceasing certain weapons shipments to Ukraine because US inventory is "starting to get too low." So even the US is now in weapons trouble after wasting countless weapons, ammunition, and supplies, funding the disastrous Ukraine conflict with Russia.
Now, with Israel having basically run-out of air defense missiles, and with the US "too low" in inventory to continue supplying Ukraine, China steps-up and says they will stand with Iran.
Israel can't buy-off anyone in China, or exploit religious sympathy over the "Holocaust." So if China "stands with Iran" it seems implicit this means militarily.
Neither Israel nor the US (in our present condition) would be able to deal with this effectively.
Perhaps Israel and/or the US may call China's bluff and resume the Iran conflict anyway.
Whatever happens, China just unzipped its fly concerning the Israel-Iran situation.
