Now, Iran is a five-thousand-year civilization that has gone through annihilation before by the Romans partially and the Mongols totally among others. Not only did Iran survive, but the invaders were eventually absorbed and assimilated into the Iranian culture, behavior and system. Not only did the invaders not able to impose their culture and behavior on the conquered Iranians, but they were instead under the influence of their defeated enemy. That Iran could rise despite all those annihilation attempts says a lot about its tenacity and resilience.
Now, this is the same scenario that happened against China, another five-thousand-year civilization that withstood all the attempts to tear it apart. China had been under Mongol rule of Genghis Khan and history tells us that the Mongols, instead of imposing its culture on the Chinese during the Yuan Dynasty, were reported to discard their nomadic lifestyle and being assimilated and adopting the Chinese way of life and Governance of the country.
That is also the case with the Northern China nomadic Manchus that ruled China under the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus tried to impose its culture on the rest of China by force but failed. The Dynasty was to be the last to rule China. Each time China was humiliated but rose again and again.
Trump is now upping the ante by imposing sanctions on five Chinese oil refineries, possibly an attempt to faking the upper hand in his coming meeting with Xi. China responded by asking those Chinese refineries to just ignore the USA sanctions. This red line had never been crossed by China before and China is now doing it, telling the USA not to interfere in China's internal oil policy and legal import of Iranian oil that the UN had never sanctioned.
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