Epoch Times - Why the Iran War Is All About China | Zineb Riboua
Aired: 2026-03-05
Duration: 02:07


=== China's Role in Iran's Arsenal (02:07) ===

[00:00:00]  He says that it's really, you know, Israel is at war with Iran, but it's the U.S., this war, this is the U.S. being actually at war with China.
[00:00:08]  In a sense, I would say so.
[00:00:10]  Because it is China that has helped Iran acquire different components.
[00:00:16]  Their fingerprints are all over Iran's military arsenal.
[00:00:21]  When it comes to the missiles, I did some numbers and it's been basically the Chinese helping Iran get a lot of the chemicals, components that are very crucial for that arsenal.
[00:00:33]  Iran does not have really the domestic capacity to produce those chemicals because of the orientation of its industry, very heavy on petrochemicals.
[00:00:43]  And also they don't have the skills and mastery of it.
[00:00:46]  And so the Chinese really just stepped in and they helped.
[00:00:50]  And there's one thing that I thought was very interesting and I've been looking at that since, I would say, since 2020, and it's the Chinese eagerness to export its surveillance model, its technology model.
[00:01:10]  There were already a lot of scandals about Chinese 5G in Gulf countries.
[00:01:15]  For example, how the UAE chose 5G over American weaponry, but American jet fighters.
[00:01:23]  But this also applies to Iran.
[00:01:27]  If one looks at it, China has helped Iran's whole telecommunications architecture.
[00:01:34]  They have reshaped it exactly as they would do in Beijing.
[00:01:39]  A lot of those crackdowns that happened in January against the protesters, they happened in such a brutality because Iran was able to use Chinese technology that was absolutely sophisticated but also made in a way that they could track very easily who wears a hijab or not, who is doing this or that, because they perfected it in Uyghur camps.