OPINION_ China Used Iran and Others to Distract the West for Years, and That’s About to Change (Bryan Brulotte - THE EPOCH TIMES)

THE EPOCH TIMES

China Used Iran and Others to Distract the West for Years, and That’s About to Change

Two F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury, on March 3, 2026. U.S. Navy via Getty Images

Bryan Brulotte
3/13/2026|Updated: 3/13/2026

Commentary

For the better part of the past decade, China’s leadership has operated on a single strategic assumption: that the West is in decline.

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s foreign policy has been built around that premise. The objective wasn’t to confront the United States directly, but to construct a geopolitical perimeter that would constrain American power and distract Western attention. Russia would pressure Europe through war in Ukraine. Iran would destabilize the Middle East through proxies. Venezuela would undermine the Western Hemisphere through narcotics flows, migration pressures, and anti-American agitation.

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