[applicative]

First things first: the CCP must dominate China itself. For this job one is the global discrediting of democracy in favor of cults of personality. This is the single objective of the Putin-Xi-Khamenei information system. China global hegemony would merely be an instrument of CCP internal control. Similarly Khamenei supported Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthi, Iraq militias ... to control his own population.