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With a price tag of about $14 billion, the arms deal would be the largest ever for the democratically governed island, which faces steadily rising military pressure from China.

For years, Iranian-backed militias and terror groups attacked countries, and Iran carried out attacks directly, but the regime never seemed to face any censure.

The war with Iran is is a direct strike at China’s energy lifeline - and a pivotal move in the defining power struggle of the 21st century.

While Beijing is certainly studying the defense technologies being deployed by the US and Israel, hardware is only one part of the equation

"As a Chinese outsider with no ties to this region, I have become a 'radical observer,' witnessing firsthand how nations, religions, and cultures build walls of hatred that isolate humanity."

While global attention is on the Iran war, China quietly advances its military capabilities, focusing on modernization, innovation, and defense spending.

Two sanctioned Iranian vessels departed a Chinese chemical port carrying what experts say may be sodium perchlorate, a key missile fuel ingredient, raising questions about Beijing’s Tehran relations.

Bush promised a world order of peace and democracy, a rules-based world order where countries wouldn’t invade one another. It was also a world where the US was the global hegemon.

Twin bnei mitzvah, Persian palace dreams, and Iranian missiles lead to an unforgettable Shabbat Zachor.

The new order is colder: dependency pricing. Cut the cheap oxygen – oil cash, sanctions-evasion routes, and unprotected chokepoints – and the regimes that live on it don’t just wobble: they suffocate