Traditional Chinese wisdom and pragmatism have saved, for now, the war situation in Iran. Upon realizing that Trump’s ultimatum would dangerously escalate the war tension in the Middle East, China put pressure on Tehran to accept a truce that will last two weeks. A proposal that is signed by Pakistan and Egypt.
Naturally, this Chinese position coincides with the natural interests of Beijing, which does not want the world to turn into economic chaos by closing the Strait of Hormuz. It is globalization that was at stake and to which China can thank the degree of economic development it is currently experiencing. The Chinese position expresses the unbelievable reality that respect for the world order and the balance between nations is beginning to be on the side of China and not the United States which, with Trump, has been erasing international conventions.
What will be at stake in the next two weeks is a squaring of the negotiating circle that is quite difficult to achieve given the demands placed by Tehran on the ten points that constitute its negotiating basis. To reach a point of balance it will take diplomacy and a significant dose of common sense from the United States and Iran to reach an understanding that saves the world from the path of chaos it was following. The ten points made in the Iranian proposal imply demands that Israel will hardly accept.
Demanding that Netanyahu stop bombing Gaza and Lebanon, being a completely fair position, is calling into question Israel’s entire strategy to become a power with a significant territorial presence in the Middle East. Just as negotiations around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will be complicated, given that Tehran now wants to see ships passing through jointly with Oman. But, in this component, Tehran will have to give in. The Strait of Hormuz must reopen in light of international maritime law conventions.
The current situation in the Middle East and the attitudes of the United States are still a defeat for Donald Trump with his threats and ultimatums. The American president was saved at the bell by Beijing’s intervention.
Clearly, the United States, in addition to failing to achieve the objectives that led it to war with Iran, was faced with an asymmetrical response from Tehran which, intelligently, by closing the Strait of Hormuz, used a weapon that Trump did not consider and which could cause serious damage to the world economy and compromise the principles of collaboration between countries in accordance with the logic of globalization experienced so far.
However, the wear caused by the war began to affect the popularity of the President of the United States. Only 36% of Americans support their decisions, while 60% are critical of them.
There are repeated resignations in the high command of the Armed Forces. The Army Chief of Staff was fired.
In the MAGA hosts, important fractures begin to appear. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican congresswoman who was one of Trump’s most unfailing supporters, is now a fierce opponent of the US President’s policies.
If MAGA and Trump have any sense left, what they should do now is take advantage of the opportunity for peace that appears on the horizon with these two weeks of truce, abandon the idea of a war against Iran and reactivate Washington’s credible diplomatic circuits and try, in these two weeks, to reach an agreement that gives peace to the world and does not compromise the global financial situation that was beginning to suffer the effects of the war whose objectives were never clear from the administration. North American.
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