[DoctorOetker]

> (I say this with no sympathy to the Iranian government, just looking at reality.)

If we look at reality we see China is very active in Africa, and so also has undersea network cables (PEACE & 2Africa). If China allows this precedent to occur, they encourage any African nation nearby such cables to pull the same tricks on them. Hence a rational player in the shoes of China wouldn't allow this to happen. China should hint Iran that perhaps it should start addressing its real problems instead of making their problems someone else's problem again.

[rrhjm53270]

Putin and Trump have already made the world chaotic enough; don't let Xi get involved too.

[DoctorOetker]

Everybody is involved