Xi is Cheating: Ahead of Meeting Trump at Summit, China Called Out for Side Piece Named Iran
This upcoming Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is no longer simply about tariffs, Taiwan, semiconductors, or trade balances. It’s about taking sides in a war. The Trump administration is openly pressuring Beijing over its ties to Iran, while analysts increasingly warn that the Iran conflict could evolve into a broader confrontation involving China itself.
As the two men prepare for a highly consequential summit, China’s growing role in sustaining Iran amid a widening regional war could dominate. According to new reporting and escalating rhetoric from the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department, Chinese companies are under increasing scrutiny for allegedly aiding Iran economically and technologically even as Tehran continues executing dissidents, funding terrorism, and destabilizing the Middle East.
Steve Lance can discuss the media, propaganda, and ideological dimensions of the CCP’s growing global influence.
Joshua Philipp can break down China’s strategic doctrine, intelligence posture, and why Beijing increasingly sees global instability as opportunity.
Nan Su provides unmatched insight into internal CCP thinking, factional politics, and the regime’s long-term ambitions.
Jan Jekielek can address the broader civilizational and democratic stakes as authoritarian alliances deepen.
Grant Newsham, a former Marine officer and Indo-Pacific expert, can explain the military and strategic implications if China’s alignment with Iran intensifies further.
Leeshai Lemish offers crucial perspective on how authoritarian systems like China and Iran similarly weaponize censorship, coercion, and state control against their own populations.
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Beijing’s role in the Strait of Hormuz crisis, its deep dependence on Iranian oil, and reports involving multiple Chinese companies connected to Iran’s military and energy infrastructure have transformed China from distant observer to active stakeholder.
For years, many Americans viewed China primarily through the lens of economics (cheap goods, trade deficits, and supply chains). That era may be ending. The Iran conflict is exposing something larger: China’s expanding footprint in global crises and its willingness to stand beside regimes hostile to Western interests and democratic values. The Trump-Xi summit may reveal whether Beijing intends to restrain that trajectory — or accelerate it.
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What does China stand to gain by supporting Iran during this conflict?
- Why is the Trump-Xi summit shaping up to be far more consequential than a standard trade meeting?
- Has the Iran conflict exposed China as a geopolitical actor Americans can no longer ignore?
- How concerned should Americans be about Chinese companies allegedly aiding Iran’s military and energy sectors?
- Could China’s growing alignment with Iran eventually pull Beijing into a broader regional or global conflict?
- Why do authoritarian regimes like China and Iran appear increasingly willing to support one another openly?
- Is the Chinese Communist Party using global instability to expand its own influence and strategic position?
- What should the United States be demanding from Xi Jinping regarding China’s relationship with Iran?
ABOUT JOSHUA PHILIPP…
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies. Crossroads with Joshua Philipp – YouTube
ABOUT STEVE LANCE…
Steve Lance is the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, Anchor, and Chief Political Correspondent for NTD News, where he hosts Capitol Report, a political news program based in the nation’s capital aimed at providing direct coverage of the voices and people who shape U.S. policy. His knowledge base is U.S. foreign policy and military, geopolitics, to include China to a large degree.
Lance is Executive Producer of a powerful documentary film that highlights the CCP persecution inside the U.S. He focuses on investigative documentaries and cinematic storytelling rooted in real-world events. In UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun, Lance leads the film’s investigative narrative, examining threats, sabotage attempts, and the broader campaign targeting the performing arts company. Lance is also an investigative journalist and Vice President of NTD Television.
ABOUT COL. GRANT NEWSHAM, USMCR, RET…
Col. Newsham is a retired US Marine Colonel and was the first US Marine Liaison Officer to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Over 40 years in the Indo-Pacific. Authored a groundbreaking book entitled, When China Attacks: A Warning to America. Col. Newsham previously served as the reserve G2 (intelligence) and G5 (plans and policy) at Marine Forces Pacific Headquarters in Honolulu covering the entire Asia/Pacific region, and also served on two occasions as the US Marine Attaché, US Embassy Tokyo. He has testified before Congress.
ABOUT JAN JEKIELEK…
Jan Jekielek is senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders” and was co-host of “FALLOUT” with Dr. Robert Malone and “Kash’s Corner” with now FBI Director Kash Patel. Years ago, Jan studied the evolutionary biology of lemurs in Madagascar, and his life took an unexpected turn. Exposed to the realities of human rights violations in China, he ended up working with an underground railroad bringing Chinese dissidents through the Golden Triangle to Bangkok and ultimately to Western countries. It was then that he realized that telling unknown heroes’ stories was transformative, both for him and audiences.
Determined to tell true stories, Jan started working with The Epoch Times 20 years ago, at a time when popular narratives in the West hid the dark underbelly of communist China. He did some of the earliest reporting on the Chinese regime’s continuing practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, and he’s the author of the upcoming book, “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary.”
ABOUT NAN SU…
Nan Su is currently a Senior Reporter for the Epoch Times, a New York-based newspaper published in 36 countries and 22 languages. Mr. Su’s focus has been subjects related to China.
Born and raised in China, Mr. Nan Su came to the United States in 1989. Since 2003, he has served as a news commentator for the SOH International Chinese Radio Network and NTD International TV Network, focusing on news related to China. Over the past two decades, Mr. Su has delivered numerous speeches at public events on a wide range of China-related topics.
As an expert on China, Mr. Su’s work has covered extensively on subjects such as the threat of CCP’s global expansion, the security of Taiwan and Taiwan Strait, CCP’s human rights abuses in China, China’s economy, traditional Chinese culture before communism, forced organ harvesting in China, and the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun since 2006. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese.
He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
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