This will prop up the mullahs, who are so unpopular among the Iranian people that the Islamic regime might otherwise have fallen.
“Urdu-Language Daily: ‘More Than 5,000 Chinese Troops Will Be Deployed In Iran, And A [Military] Base Will Be Built,'” MEMRI, April 2, 2021:
On March 27, 2021, China and Iran signed an economic and security cooperation agreement according to which Beijing will invest $400 billion in Iran over the next 25 years. This is a far-reaching agreement that is certain to increase the Chinese strategic influence in the Middle East for decades to come.
The article in the Urdu daily Roznama Ummat.
Pakistani analysts are also watching how China’s new focus on Iran will influence Chinese investment in Pakistan. In a report, the Urdu daily Roznama Ummat tried to assess the impact of the Chinese agreement with Iran.
The report is titled: “The Deployment Of 5,000 Chinese Troops In Iran [is] Part Of The Agreement.” The Roznama Ummat report sees the deployment of 5,000 Chinese troops in Iran in positive terms for regional stability. Following is the text of the report.
“More Than 5,000 Chinese Troops Will Be Deployed In Iran, And A [Military] Base Will Be Built For Them”
“In the agreement with Iran regarding the investment project, China has also included a clause for deployment of its troops there; and more than 5,000 Chinese troops will be deployed in Iran, and a [military] base will be built for them. Before this, China has also put its signature on investment projects with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which shows that China is implementing a plan to increase its influence in the Middle East.
“Contrary to the general impression, analysts are also seeing positive impact of the Chinese investment in Iran on the CPEC [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor] project underway in Pakistan… China is going to get cheap oil from Iran which will go to China via Pakistan. Similarly, China’s [investment projects] with Pakistan are, instead of financial benefits, of strategic nature.
“Pakistani experts and analysts who observe these matters deeply completely reject the general concern in Pakistan that China is now moving in the direction of Iran [thereby abandoning Pakistan]. They say that the recent pact between China and Iran for economic cooperation will not be an alternative to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and will be rather nourishing it.
“According to experts, China has tried to wriggle itself out of the consequences of the American sanctions by cooperating with Iran in long-term economic and infrastructure construction and security matters. Iran has agreed to sell its oil to China at a price cheaper than international rates to get an assured source of income and so that the sale of its oil can continue without any obstacles. The documents of this [China-Iran] agreement have not yet emerged, but as per the known details, during the next 25 years Chinese projects worth $400 billion can significantly help in creating economic stability in Iran’s damaged economy. In exchange for it, China will get oil, gas, and petrochemical products at cheaper prices from Iran.”
Former Pakistani Ambassador Iqbal Ahmed Khan: “America Has Sidelined Both Pakistan And Iran Which Forced Us To Look Toward Others; China’s Cooperation With Iran Will Benefit Pakistan Directly”
“According to the agreement signed between the two countries, 5,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army of China will also be deployed in Iran which is being opposed in Iran – at the forefront of which is the former President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad. An analyst… has written that that this agreement, giving China an opportunity to deploy 5,000 security and military officials on the Iran territory, is a regional game-changer.
“Meanwhile, as per Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, the chairman of the Pakistan-China Institute, the Iran-China agreement is positive for the interests of Pakistan and the region because this will nourish a regional economic cooperation whose center is Pakistan, that is CPEC [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor]. Mushahid Hussain expressed the hope that it will help in providing stability to the role of [Chinese-built] Gwadar port in promoting regional cooperation between China, Afghanistan, Iran, and the countries of the Middle East and in stabilizing Baluchistan [the insurgency-affected Pakistani province along Iran’s border].
“Former Pakistani ambassador Iqbal Ahmed Khan, who is the professor of international affairs at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), says that China’s investment project with Iran is part of its $8 trillion Border and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, the CPEC being one of them. It is not correct to compare China’s investment in Iran with the CPEC in Pakistan because both of them are Chinese investments and the two will be aiding each other, and its benefits will reach all the three countries [China, Pakistan, and Iran].
“The former ambassador [Iqbal Ahmed Khan] said that China’s investment in Iran is not at the cost of Pakistan. He said that America has sidelined both Pakistan and Iran, which forced us to look toward others; China’s cooperation with Iran will benefit Pakistan directly. Iran’s oil, which currently travels 13,000 miles to reach China, will now travel 1,500 miles through the safe passage in Pakistan to reach China…”
Source: Roznama Ummat (Pakistan), April 1, 2021.
mortimer says
Anyone with the power of critical thought knew that a weak US president would lead to international, political and military ADVENTURISM.
The two-faced godless communists of China are HYPOCRITICALLY making an alliance with the mullahs just as they are murdering MULLAHS in Chinese concentration camps.
Slumbering, crumbling, stumbling, fumbling Sleep Joe is the WEAK-KNEED, VACILLATING, DITHERING president of the CCP’s expansionist dreams.
The CCP is going to get away with murder with the president they put in power in the US through long-distance cybernetic election manipulation.
Keys says
Agree, mortimer. And like the Demorat Party leaders now in power, they will waste no time in getting things done to accomplish theirs agendas.
gravenimage says
Agree, Miortimer.
Mason Stewart says
Sarcelles (95): a Pakistani who is subject to an obligation to leave the territory attacked 3 Jews with a knife. Indicted and released
https://www.fdesouche.com/2021/04/03/sarcelles-95-un-pakistanais-qui-ferait-lobjet-dune-obligation-de-quitter-le-territoire-a-agresse-3-juifs-au-couteau-mis-en-examen-et-libere/
gravenimage says
Awful.
Michael Copeland says
Iran’s oil, which currently travels 13,000 miles to reach China, will now travel 1,500 miles “through the safe passage in Pakistan”.
That may be rather ambitious: Pakistan is not exactly “safe”.
Infidel says
For Iran, it may be. Despite being anti-shi’a, the Pakis are the people w/ the most positive opinions on Iran (talking here about the Islamic Republic, not the people who may be anything wrt islam)
John says
Maybe Pakis will now flood China instead of the west with their four wives and 20 children. China can have Iran and Pakistan.
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, yes, possibly a few Pakistanis will immigrate to China … if nobody tells them about what the Chinese are doing to the Uighurs and they don’t want to follow the Koran anymore. However, I have a feeling most of the Pakistanis will still find the West to be the easier Jihad. Once they have made the West submit then they will turn on China. Of course, the Chinese are thinking the same thing. Once the Chinese take over the West then they will get rid of all the Muslims. Right now the West is the mutual enemy and target of both.
Infidel says
Actually, most Pakis are well aware of what the Chicoms are doing in Xinjiang, and most are seething in rage against Beijing, and the Paki government is doing what it can to keep them contained, since their military top brass is busy getting greased by CPEC projects (in the same way that top Pentagon generals get fat salaries being on the boards of Defense companies). Pakistan is now a de-facto colony of China, and gives them a direct outlet to the Indian Ocean; Iran would give them a direct outlet to the Gulf. Essentially, the ummah is slowly getting gobbled up by Beijing, and for me, it’s like an Alien vs Predator situation: I don’t have any dogs in this fight
Fred van de Bunt says
China is just a new kid on the block. Wait and see.
They still have to develop a lot in China, and if those Mullah’s have any grey brain cell for themselves left, apart from the 99.99% of the brains that are occupied by Allah and his Quran, , that country can develop too.
And the USA does not have to be the lonely policemen in the swamps of the Middle East, since those Chinese really need the oil and gas from there, which the USA has at home.
Rueben Singh says
Why can western governments not impose a heavy tax upon all Chinese made goods, call it a “National Security Tax”.
Any western company refusing to shift it’s production from China to a friendly nation will have to pay punitive taxes, corporation tax, Local & national sales tax, and income tax for all Executives.
As the communists say “The capitalists will sell us the rope that we will use to hang them”
Halal Bacon says
3 bucks says this is China’s Afghanistan
Infidel says
Since China has no qualms about dissecting people they don’t like, they won’t run into the same problems that the Soviets and we ran into in Afghanistan. They’ll probably end up doing in Pakistan and Iran what they are doing in Xinjiang
gravenimage says
Halal Bacon, China is not invading Iran intending to replace Islam with Communism–they have been invited in by the Mullahs.
Deeperinfo says
The Iran sanctions law have automatic sanctions, against China.
This trade is a violation of US law and trade will be restricted.
China ha gone a step too far this time: they underestimate the existing law. As does biden’s butt.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Biden will do anything here.
Ezekiel Okeke says
This is 21st century world of Multipolar international order in which China and Iran are among the ten leaders of Southern Countries Union. Southern Countries Union which comprises Asia, Africa, South America and parts of Europe led by Russia representing Europe, China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Iran representing Asia, Brazil, Mexico representing South America, Egypt, South Africa representing Africa. Southern Defence Force must defend Southern Countries Union territorial sovereign states and market with whatever it takes.
20th century world unilateral international order of Anglo-America is dead. Anglo-America world power has fallen and gone forever. The era Anglo-America with their slaves bullied countries of the world and stole wealth of many countries, is over and gone forever.
This is 21st century world of relations based on Mutual Principles.
gravenimage says
It seems that Ezekiel Okeke her thinks that democracies have slaves but that totalitarian nations like China and Iran are free. Just delusional.
OLD GUY says
China knows that they own Biden and family. The next four years will see China expanding their world dominance both from military and economics. NOT good for America or the rest of the free world.
Can’t see this relationship between China and Islam lasting, but China will use muslims until they are no longer of use to them.
gravenimage says
The Biden Effect: China to deploy 5,000 troops in Iran, build military base there
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The Chinese Communists and the Mullahs–both totarlitarian thugs.