China has perfected the role of concerned onlooker as the Middle East conflict spreads across the region.
With no direct role in the conflict and some 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) away from the action, Beijing has a little more breathing room to work out the calculus on how the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran affects its interests. Yet the recent events nonetheless place China in a strategically uncomfortable position. The U.S. campaign is the most significant operation conducted by China’s main strategic, economic and military rival since the Iraq war, and it is unfolding across a region central to China’s energy security and commercial ambitions.
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