What the Iran War Taught China About Fighting the United States

President Donald Trump’s administration may soon recognize that the most important audience for the Iran war was not in Tehran or Jerusalem, but in Beijing. Chinese strategists have seen a demonstration at scale of U.S. military capabilities—and how the United States fights. They have been assessing the durability of U.S. deterrence across the Taiwan Strait, and they can now see the gap between military outcomes and strategic effects.

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