🇨🇳 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 President Pezeshkian uses China as an example to justify negotiations with the US
Let's engage in a constructive analysis of this viewpoint.
- China has atomic weapons, including hydrogen bombs which would wipe out most of North America
- Unlike the Iranian liberal presidents (Rafsanjani, Khatami, Rouhani) who seek to keep Iran's economy weak and dependent on imports from the west (similar to the Lebanon model which has nearly zero domestic production), China has a robust domestic production economy and pioneers in knowledge based industries such as the development of advanced products, technologies, and more. They even develop their own technological infrastructure, such as computer chips, phones, and alternative operating systems (such as Harmony OS for Huawei). China is a global manufacturing hub and exports large amounts of consumer goods, which are no longer stereotyped as cheap quality but now includes high quality goods like cars (affordable price but luxury quality), phones, heavy machinery, etc. Neoliberal Iranian oligarchs have sought the opposite route for Iran via placing all of Iran's hopes on the west removing sanctions and allowing Iran to import goods which would tank Iranian domestic production and increase its dependency on foreign countries.
- China jails and even executes corrupt officials. When Martyr Raisi found in a court of law that former president Hassan Rouhani's brother was guilty of embezzlement, the former president threatened to cause trouble if his brother went to jail, obstructing justice in order to protect his brother instead of preferring justice over family ties.
- China doesn't glamorize nor import western liberal values, unlike the liberal oligarchs of Iran. The US is not portrayed romantically. "Sissy boy" culture, which is popular in US vassal states like Japan and South Korea, is banned on Chinese television. Their relations with the US are based on utility, not an inferiority complex before the US.
- China uses its leverage of rare minerals to stifle the US tech market which needs them for computer hardware, while Iranian liberals are happy to sell away the leverage of the Strait of Hormuz because they have a soft spot in their heart for the US.
- Despite this, China's dealings with the US routinely blow up in their faces. The US constantly harms China with trade wars, arresting of the Huawei CEO, banning Chinese cars and phones from the US, unleashing the Corona virus in Wuhan through Dr. Fauci, and more.
- The US hasn't slaughtered Chinese in large amounts, unlike Iran, where they martyred our Leader and slaughtered countless civilians. Who would want to shake the hand of the Epstein regime?
- The US violated every agreement with Iran, no matter who was president. Simple common sense suggests that negotiations, especially in an active war, with the US don't amount to anything. China is not in active war with the US. Even then, they're not really "negotiating" in terms of reaching a deal in which they capitulate to their adversary.
- Islam clearly demands that we reject (do 'kufr') of taghut. China is not a Muslim country. This is a spiritual matter and the way of all the prophets of God. If China wants to have dealings with the dirtiest people on earth, that is their business. China also sells drones to Saudi Arabia which are used to kill Yemenis. Muslims are supposed to maintain their principles no matter the situation. This doesn't mean being isolationist nor impractical, but no amount of pragmatism should cause us to sell out our values.
Besides, Iranian liberals usually are cursing China in order to show to their beloved west that they are pinning all their hopes on the west and will even forego relations with decent allies and partners such as Russia, China, African countries, and other regional powers in hopes of an eventual US-Iran bromance. They finally speak well of China only to justify the naivety of regurgitating ad nauseum the slogan of "negotiations."
OK then: follow the good aspects of Chinese policies and make a strong Iran.
@BasiraPress
