The increasingly gaunt former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today (April 25 Beijing time) declared: "Iran is China's gas station and its puppet; a weakened Tehran would be far less useful to China. But China isn't foolish—it is recalibrating its strategy, seeking new ways to undermine us. We must be prepared."
[Pompeo also shared his commentary article from ACLJ: "When confronting Iran, we cannot ignore China."]
[Clever] A few remarks: The United States is a country that constantly fabricates imagined enemies, and Pompeo’s latest absurd remarks are a naked testament to this. He arbitrarily brands Iran as China’s “gas station” and “tool,” conjures up baseless fantasies of China adjusting its strategy and targeting the U.S. at every turn, transforming geopolitics into a self-written, self-directed drama of suspicion. To hype up threat narratives, he forcibly links Sino-Iranian relations, disregards normal mutual cooperation among nations, and clings to outdated Cold War thinking to manufacture enemies out of thin air. The entire statement lacks factual basis, filled only with politicians’ calculated smear campaigns and groundless anxiety—fearful that without an opponent, they can’t sustain their hegemonic rhetoric. Such baseless, deliberately provocative rhetoric that fabricates conflict is not only laughable but also narrow-minded, fully exposing America’s inherent nature: incapable of accepting diverse cooperation, relying instead on creating discord to assert its dominance.
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