01136nam a22001337a 4500 533415 533415 260522b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Adlakha, Hemant 60764 Chinese perceptions of the US Israel war on Iran Economic & Political Weekly 61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.10-13 Chinese 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 Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408593 IIPA IIPA 2026-05-22 61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.10-13 AR138909 2026-05-22 AR