BBC Persian has reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry has announced that the Iranian president Ebrahim raisi today he will visit China, at the official invitation of the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The visit will last three days.
Iran and China have strong economic ties, especially in the fields of energy, transportation, agriculture, trade and investment. Both countries signed in 2021 a “strategic cooperation pact25-year-old level “political and economic“, the contents of which are still unclear, i.e. it is not possible to understand Beijing's final objective.
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On Corsera you try to explain the mystery. The former Iranian ambassador in Beijing, Mohammad Khatami, declared that the China-Iran pact has been used by Beijing as a lever to close other agreements with the Gulf countries. The proof was the Xi's recent trip to Saudi Arabia, where unconditional support for the claims of the United Arab Emirates on three islands disputed with Iran can be read from the first statements.
A support that initially aroused resentment in Tehran, which was later dulled by Xi's official invitation in recent days.
According to an Iranian news agency, Teheran is ready to ship around fifteen thousand Shared-136 type drones, also used by Moscow in the war in Ukraine, to demonstrate its attention to joining the Russian-Chinese axis.
The 360° collaboration between China, Russia and Iran, it seems, is having a sharp acceleration after the diplomatic crisis following the shooting down of the Chinese air balloon found at 65000 feet inside American airspace.
The People's Republic of China is helping Moscow in the conflict in Ukraine. An investigation of Wall Street Journal has shown, by analyzing the customs records of the Russian Federation, that Chinese defense companies are sending a large amount of war material to the Russians. From navigational equipment to communications jamming technology to aircraft components. These are just a few of the tens of thousands of component shipments dual use which Russia managed to import after the invasion.
China is Iran's main trading partner, writes the Irna news agency: exports to Beijing amounted to 12,6 billion dollars, while imports of goods from China amounted to 12,7 billion dollars.