While We Confront Iran, We Can’t Take Our Eye Off China
Mike R. Pompeo
American Center for Law and Justice
April 24, 2026
I’ve said it for years: The Chinese Communist Party is the defining threat of our time. Not Iran. Not Russia. The CCP. That hasn’t changed. If anything, this moment makes it more urgent.
The President is doing the right thing in the Middle East. Taking the fight directly to Tehran and its proxies is long overdue, and he deserves credit for it. Maximum pressure works. I know because we used it. When you squeeze the Iranian regime, you’re not just stabilizing a volatile region – you’re also cutting off Beijing’s most reliable source of cheap energy and regional chaos. Iran is China’s gas station and its cat’s-paw. A weakened Tehran is a less useful Tehran for Xi Jinping.
But let’s be honest about what the CCP does when America’s attention is elsewhere. They move.
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