CHINA: Is Trump’s Iran war about a different theatre?

“I want to bring this home to our part of the world, our region. And your point about this being essentially performative tends to cut against one theory that's become popular among a certain element of the commentariat, which is that this is all about China.“That at the base of all this and the Venezuela operation, as well, and American statecraft, if we can call it that, under Donald Trump, is somehow all explainable by a long term competition with China and that the United States is involved in this very far sighted strategy of trying to isolate China and to deny it allies.“I'd like to say that's rubbish.”