That three or four decades of distraction pivoting on wars in the past, fighting terrorists, sanctioning countries and erecting trade barriers by the USA has allowed China the legroom to create an economy from nothing to what it is today.
The Iran war is now helping China in more ways than one. China is taking the opportunity to expand its foothold in Africa and making the Yuan more accessible and wider in usage at the expense of the US$, which is losing substantial leverage on global trade. The result may be marginal, but China is not in a hurry and thinks in very long-term basis.
That Chinese trait of long-term commitment has been carried down the centuries by successive Chinese leaders and what better example than building the Great Wall of China, a construction project spanning over two thousand years which is testimony to Chinese patience. Over centuries, different Chinese emperors undertook the building and extension of the wall in stages. Differences in ideology did not matter and the fact that the intention did not change even with different emperors ruling the country is astounding.
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