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26 January 2006
Eurasia and Eastasia vs. Oceania
China just made a statement that it will back a Russian plan to provide assistance to Iranian nuclear research. Even if the deal falls through, China's willingness to openly side with Russia in this affair shows a gathering diplomatic network opposed to increased US power in the world. It's not an Axis of Evil. It's a Balance of Power.
Hats off to Orwell, who only got the names of nations and the year messed up in his novel 1984. It probably started back in 1945, and he wrote not science fiction, but current observation.
Iran supplies lots of oil to China, so that may also have been a factor in China's ability to put aside past differences with Russia and back its diplomatic move.