China not so stupid la... only America wants war, China wants peace...
As the US bombs Iran and enters another war, China is the likely winner
By
Alan Kohler
Mon 23 JunMonday 23 June
China is publicly "deeply concerned" about events in the Middle East but privately is probably celebrating.
America is off to war again, and China will be the winner as it has been for two decades.
Throughout China's rise as an industrial power since it joined the World Trade Organization on December 11, 2001 — exactly three months after 9/11 — America has been constantly sidetracked and weakened by wars and unrest.
It started with the "War on Terror" after 9/11, then Afghanistan, Iraq in 2003, Yemen from 2002, Libya in 2007, Syria from 2014, the contested US election and riots of January 6, 2021, Ukraine and then Gaza over the past two years, Donald Trump's two trade wars, and now … Iran.
Trump understood the problem and campaigned on "no more wars," but has been unable to resist the pressure from America's military establishment and Israel.
While Trump fights, China makes friends
Meanwhile, China has been quietly making friends, building its military muscle as part of a frenetic industrial policy, and not using it (although it's been doing some industrial-scale espionage to get technology).
China's leaders still work on the old-fashioned idea that economic policy is for improving the prosperity of citizens and strengthening the country, not for conducting ideological culture wars, and that diplomacy is about winning friends and influencing people.
Events last week were a perfect example of the difference between the world's two superpowers.
As Trump was leaving the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, last week to prepare to bomb Iran, flinging threats at the other six members and refusing to sign the communique, Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Astana, Kazakhstan, for the second China-Central Asia Summit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/trump-us-iran-war-economy-china/105446938