Alexander Gabuev and Temur Umarov
Carnegie Politika is a digital publication that features unmatched analysis and insight on Russia, Ukraine and the wider region. For nearly a decade, Carnegie Politika has published contributions from members of Carnegie’s global network of scholars and well-known outside contributors and has helped drive important strategic conversations and policy debates. The regime in Tehran has been brought to the brink of collapse by just a few days of attacks by the United States and Israel. In this period, Iran would have benefitted immensely from help from its allies: particularly those from the authoritarian “CRINK” axis (China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea) that opposes the democratic world order.
However, neither Moscow nor Beijing has offered any tangible support, limiting themselves to public criticism of the United States and Israel. While Russia’s passivity can be explained by its preoccupation with the war in Ukraine, the expectation that China might prop up Tehran militarily has always been flawed. China is not the “new America,” and it has very different ideas of how to act effectively in the modern world.
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