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Occasional Paper Series - Last Among Equals: - The China-Iran Partnership in a Regional Context

29 Sep 2020

has been part of the Chinese agenda under One of the core missions of the CSP is to Xi Jinping, and the People’s Liberation Army “strengthen enforcement of the laws of bilateral (PLA) and the People’s Liberation Army Navy security cooperation, including the fight against 20 (PLAN) have made long strides with the launch terrorism.” The draft agreement promises to of China’s first and second aircraf. [...] in the States and the Dominican Republic were the only wake of the Clinton administration’s Iran-Libya states to vote in favor, China and Russia voted Sanctions Act.38 In the immediate aftermath of against it, and 11 member states abstained.39 the JCPOA, there was a great deal of optimism China once again took the role of Iran’s champion for cooperation between Chinese and Iranian against sanction. [...] in this study, Iran appears no more dependent than the five other major states in the region Furthermore, the deterioration of the China- examined in this study – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran relationship since the beginning of the Iraq, Turkey, and Pakistan. [...] 38 l September 2020 Introduction This document also aims to help operationalize Article 6 of the initial joint statement issued in The People’s Republic of China and the Islamic January 2016 on launching the Comprehensive Republic of Iran, herein referred to as “parties” Strategic Partnership between the People’s to the agreement, Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran. [...] Signatures Article 8 From the Islamic Republic of Iran Rejection of Outside Pressure: From the People’s Republic of China In line with the principle of multilateralism, the two parties shall safeguard the implementation of the Articles of the present document in the Appendices face of illegal pressure from third parties.
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