Thank you for this interesting article with new information. For an historical background the Chinese have made deals with the Muslims since 800 AD. When the Muslims established their bloody empirical rulers among the pagans and Christians which lived in Persia. Since then the Arabian Muslims have tried to rule by the sword and could care less about the indigenous population of Persia. Now...? The Iran rulers are still blood thirsty and worry their other Muslim neighbors to the point that some Muslim nations have made a treaty with Israel. How's that for irony writ large? Kuwait, a Muslim nation, was invaded by the brutal Iraq nation in 1990. I researched the war because the Western politicians of the US of A and the European nations blamed the skyrocketing oil prices
on the wars in the Middle East. In the 1990's the Chinese contracted for 40 years of oil supplies, and I think that Iran, and Iraq were part of that deal. So what is new? There are Democrats wanting war now. There are Democrats wanting to drive up oil prices to bleed the middle class dry and put us on mass transit. I hope the Chinese succeed. I hope Iran can keep its oppressed people from rebelling. I hope that those who plot and plan the American middle class's demise fail. But....?