On December 12, 2011, Huanqiu, a state newspaper under Xinhua, published an article titled, “China Cannot Sit Idly and Watch the U.S. Military Action against Iran that Undermines China’s Interests.” The article claimed that “the alliance between China, Russia, and Iran will be a nightmare for the United States.” “From the perspective of the U.S. global strategy, the interdependent relationship between Iran and China, as well as Russia, is the relationship between the lips and the teeth. When the lips are lost, the teeth will be exposed to the cold.” “After the U.S. killed Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Muammar Gaddafi, the three anti-American strongmen in the Islamic world, Iran became the last country in the Middle East to be under U.S. siege.”
The article concluded, “After the painful lessons of the Iraq war and the Libya war, China can no longer tolerate the U.S. and the Western countries starting wars at will and undermining China’s interests.” “China should join Russia and firmly oppose any proposal of military action against Iran.”
Source: Huanqiu, December 12, 2011
http://mil.huanqiu.com/Observation/2011-12/2255589.html