Snapshot · The MeidasTouch Podcast
Beijing and Islamabad are conducting coordinated diplomatic contacts aimed at reducing US-Iran tensions, with Pakistan acting as a regional facilitator and China as the overarching political umbrella.
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit provided the stage for the most consequential diplomatic meetings that the mainstream Western press largely underreported. Meiselas walks through the publicly available evidence: Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi and China's Wang Yi photographed together, the Iranian and Chinese embassy accounts posting about the meeting, and a senior source telling Al Arabiya that Beijing and Islamabad are conducting coordinated diplomatic outreach to reduce US-Iran tensions [1] — Ben Meiselas "China-Pakistan diplomatic coordination: Beijing and Islamabad are conducting coordinated diplomatic contacts aimed at reducing US-Iran tens…" 03:12 . The diplomatic language Meiselas decodes is precise: China is offering a 'broader political umbrella' — which, he explains bluntly, means Beijing is replacing Washington as the guarantor of regional security in the Middle East. Pakistan serves as the good-cop regional facilitator, with its defense agreements with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait giving it credibility as a broker. Meanwhile the Gulf Cooperation Council states are all gravitating toward this new China-centric framework, abandoning the US-centric one that Trump has effectively destroyed through his erratic and militarily costly Iran campaign.
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