China Looks Towards Iran
CAMILIA RAZAVI and DANIEL KHALESSI take an in-depth look at China's growing footprint in Iran./ In 138 BC, a Chinese imperial envoy named Zhang Qian set out to traverse the dangerous plains of Central Asia on horseback, ultimately entering the Persian Empire. On January 30th, 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping descended from his airplane in Tehran, marking the continuation of a two-thousand-year-old relationship between the two civilizations./ "Iran has historically been one of China's most significant trading partners," says Dr. Lu Yang, ...
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