China views the intermittent cycle of Middle East escalation as a way to increase the strategic cost of the U.S. Gulf posture and distract Washington from confronting China in the Indo-Pacific.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Irregular Warfare Initiative
  We Bombed the Wrong Target Iran's Proxy Network Strategy

Sources

• We Bombed the Wrong Target Iran's Proxy Network Strategy irregularwarfare.org Irregular Warfare Initiative via serper

Referenced by nodes (5)

• United States entity
• China entity
• Middle East location
• Indo-Pacific region location
• Gulf location