Trump’s Iran Strategy Is Helping China
Forcing India out of Iran will give China yet more power in the region.
The Trump administration tends to view Iran in isolation or as a Middle Eastern problem—a regional nemesis with nuclear ambitions that threatens Israel and America’s Arab allies. This is a mistake. Iran sits at the critical cross section of the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the vital trade routes cutting across the Asian continent. At the moment, though Donald Trump doesn’t seem to see it, the administration’s Iran policy is reverberating across the globe
