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This is John Batchelor.

Colleague, Victoria Coates, the Vice President of the Heritage Foundation,

comments on the idea that China can play any role in the Iran war or the Middle East conflict.

Any role at all? it's hanging back,

but what offices does it bear after these years of wolf warrior conduct?

Here's Victoria.

More of this tonight.

Well, I don't know that they would foresee China playing any particularly constructive role in negotiations. I do think they think China could potentially be helpful in Ukraine if they decide

that as we go into year five of Putin's three-day war, that it's time to wrap it up. I'm not saying

they're going to do it out of the goodness

of their hearts, but if they see self-interest there, they might start pressuring Russia to

get to some kind of acceptable deal. But in the Gulf, nobody, I think, particularly trusts them.

So I don't think they could be an effective interlocutor between

the United States and Iran. I mean, their interests would be so clearly on the Iranian side that

it would be hard to see them as an honest broker.

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