Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists

Donald Trump returns from his visit to China without the display of strength he had hoped to project to the world. No meaningful public concessions, no visible strategic alignment from Beijing against Tehran, and no image of a leader capable of forcibly reshaping the global geopolitical chessboard. That alone would already be telling. But placed within the broader context of Iran’s growing strategic resilience and Washington’s increasing inability to impose its political will on key adversaries, the episode becomes symbolic of something much larger: the exhaustion of the old unipolar illusion. For decades, the United States built its international hegemony on a simple premise: any state daring to challenge its architecture of power would pay an intolerable price. Devastating economic […]