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Colonel Wilkinson, thank you so much for doing this. I think most Americans understand this as a war between the United States in partnership

with Israel against Iran, but there are of course a lot of other players acting on this drama,

maybe in ways that we don't perceive, China would be the biggest and

potentially most threatening to our interests. What is China's role in this conflict?

It's a role, I think, forced upon them at the moment. Not that they can't handle it. They seem to be

quite adaptable with regard to this very frenetic and indeterminate presidency and empire.

But it's forced on them because they didn't think that this was going to happen in the way that it's happened, I think.

That is to say, this being the war of choice with Iran.

And some things are happening in the war that are probably disturbing to them.

For example, the latest completed railroad and their five base road initiative railroads

was probably the most strategic one in many ways.

It brings China's specific ports all the way around on land and then

intended was up the Persian Gulf along the old route that we used to resupply the Soviet Union

during World War II and eventually into the caucuses and beyond.

And now we're bombing it.

Israel and we are bombing that railroad.

Now, of course, railroads don't get bombed very well.

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