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{{Cquote|So what are the [[Chinese]] reading? How do they read it? Just as a misguided [[spy]] story? Or do they say, ‘This sounds like there are forces within [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] that are moving back towards [[trade war]] or tech war against [[China]], restricting certain things to China, putting on legal constraints on what can be done with China in that technical sphere. So are we going back to tech war?’

{{Cquote|So what are the [[Chinese]] reading? How do they read it? Just as a misguided [[spy]] story? Or do they say, ‘This sounds like there are forces within [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] that are moving back towards [[trade war]] or tech war against [[China]], restricting certain things to China, putting on legal constraints on what can be done with China in that technical sphere. So are we going back to tech war?’

[[China]] will be looking at this quite carefully, so I don’t think they’ll want to help [[Trump]] out with [[Iran]] at all, and [[Russia]] certainly isn’t going to. Russia has a big project and it has bright red lines under that project. [That project is] to change the [[geopolitical]] architecture of [[Eurasia]] and Iran is going to change the geopolitical architecture of the [[Persian Gulf|Gulf region]]. It’s not just about military bases. It’s about, if you like, [[cultural]] domination as manifest in certain [[Gulf States]] that are orientated towards [[AI]] and [[data center]]s and [[Security architecture|security structures]]. These [ [[civilizational states]] ] reject the idea as set out by [[Rubio]] that [[the West]] must lead the world, that the West has a right to dominate. China and Russia understand this is the big war of the civilizational states against the attempt by the West to establish its [[Sovereignty|[global] sovereignty]]. The attempt by the [[United States]] to control all the choke points of the world, of the seaways, as the method with which to squeeze China’s [[energy]] and, by squeezing China’s energy, to contain China’s [[economic grpwth|growth]] because they want to have leverage to tell the Chinese, ‘You’re not allowed to [[export]] so much.’

[[China]] will be looking at this quite carefully, so I don’t think they’ll want to help [[Trump]] out with [[Iran]] at all, and [[Russia]] certainly isn’t going to. Russia has a big project and it has bright red lines under that project. [That project is] to change the [[geopolitical]] architecture of [[Eurasia]] and Iran is going to change the geopolitical architecture of the [[Persian Gulf|Gulf region]]. It’s not just about military bases. It’s about, if you like, [[cultural]] domination as manifest in certain [[Gulf States]] that are orientated towards [[AI]] and [[data center]]s and [[Security architecture|security structures]]. These [ [[civilizational state]]s ] reject the idea as set out by [[Rubio]] that [[the West]] must lead the world, that the West has a right to dominate. China and Russia understand this is the big war of the civilizational states against the attempt by the West to establish its [[Sovereignty|[global] sovereignty]]. The attempt by the [[United States]] to control all the choke points of the world, of the seaways, as the method with which to squeeze China’s [[energy]] and, by squeezing China’s energy, to contain China’s [[economic grpwth|growth]] because they want to have leverage to tell the Chinese, ‘You’re not allowed to [[export]] so much.’

China and Russia are at one. They understand that the aim of this [[Great Power|power]] structure is to destroy Russia and to take its [[resource]]s. For those reasons there will not be a deal with Russia and there will not be a deal with [[Iran]]. I think that that will mean that the '''[[European]]s with their [[allies]] in the [[Democratic party]]--who have been [[Russophobe]]s for decades--will continue to decide the only answer is to put pressure on Russia. And I think the '[[China]] [[warmonger|hawks]] will argue for pressure on China on [[technology]] to keep [[American]] leadership. And that brings me just very quickly to my fourth moving part in all of the structure, the [[economy]]. I mean it is very very fragile.|||Alastair Crooke]]}}

China and Russia are at one. They understand that the aim of this [[Great Power|power]] structure is to destroy Russia and to take its [[resource]]s. For those reasons there will not be a deal with Russia and there will not be a deal with [[Iran]]. I think that that will mean that the '''[[European]]s with their [[allies]] in the [[Democratic party]]--who have been [[Russophobe]]s for decades--will continue to decide the only answer is to put pressure on Russia. And I think the '[[China]] [[warmonger|hawks]] will argue for pressure on China on [[technology]] to keep [[American]] leadership. And that brings me just very quickly to my fourth moving part in all of the structure, the [[economy]]. I mean it is very very fragile.|||Alastair Crooke]]}}