01076nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002000041245005300061260003300114300003500147520075100182773003300933260522b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d aAdlakha, Hemant aChinese perceptions of the US Israel war on Iran aEconomic & Political Weekly  a 61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.10-13 aChinese experts have long been warning that the United States military strikes against Iran will be a high-stakes gamble that could draw Washington into a prolonged and widening crisis it may struggle to control. Furthermore, as the international relations scholars and strategic affairs analysts in China had feared, within a couple of days of the US–Israeli military strikes on Iran, with Iran carrying out retaliatory strikes on the US military bases in several countries in the Gulf, the fighting has spread across the entire Persian Gulf region, and the “situation in the Middle East has been pushed into a dangerous abyss.”-Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/17/strategic-affairs/chinese-perceptions-us-israel-war-iran.html  aEconomic & Political Weekly