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China's Alliance Deficit — How the Middle East War Reveals a Superpower Without Force Multipliers
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The Iran-Israel-US conflict is stress-testing global alliance systems in real time, and China's network of transactional partnerships — designed for peacetime leverage — is proving structurally incapable of projecting power or protecting interests when great-power competition turns kinetic. ── 3 Key Points ───────── * • The Iran-Israel-US military confrontation escalated in