China-Iran Strategic Partnership

On The Record with Christian Briggs · Feb 23, 2023 · 48m

China and Iran are building a strategic partnership. A cooperation agreement has been signed where China and Iran will work together to expand their collective interests while diminishing the United States global interest. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke to a crowd in Beijing, stating “a new world order is forming, and taking the place of the old one, and the epicenter of the new world order is Asia.” The partnership includes China’s New Silk Road, which is called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It involves billions of dollars worth of projects in more than 100 countries, and it is…