🇨🇳 🇮🇷 The hypocrisy of Javad Zarif touting China as an excuse to justify his capitulation/surrender blueprint under the guise of "negotiations"

Zarif claimed that China's prosperity is largely owed to its normalization of relations with the US.

Before addressing what really made China prosperous, let's look at the hypocrisy of the liberal camp to even reference China.

The liberal/reformist camp is constantly slandering China and harming Tehran-Beijing relations, not only in words, but in actions.

Why? Simple: they want to prove to their beloved westerners that Iran is willing to distance themselves from the west's rivals and adversaries in order to incentivize the west to remove sanctions. This is a product of mental colonialism and self-hatred, believing the west to be a holy grail and that relations with the rest of the world must be burned in order to establish some romantic fantasy about an Iranian rapprochement with the west and US.

Several blunders with China took place during the presidency of Hassan Fereydoun ("Rouhani") which greatly harmed Iran.

— Putting President Xi in a hotel room without a toilet, an absolute diplomatic catastrophe which humiliated the president of a large, prosperous, and relevant nation

— Rouhani's hostility towards China and preference for western investments led to an investment offer from Xiaomi into Iran to not materialize. Xiaomi was a small company at the time of Rouhani's sabotage but it is now a major global company. Xiaomi currently has domestic production partnerships in Turkey, where the domestic Xiaomi supply is produced in Turkish factories under Chinese license. Other investments from the Chinese government and Chinese companies were similarly sabotaged, slowed, or other kinds of obstacles of varying degrees.

No one who supports relations with China advocates becoming China's slave or putting all of Iran's eggs in one basket in case China changes its policies one day. However, that very description is exactly what liberals and reformists have done when it comes to the openly hostile governments of the US and Europe: become their slaves and put all the eggs of Iran in the basket of relations with the west.

Imagine what benefits Iran could have reaped if this self-sabotaging policy of Rouhani was not present: massive investments, technology and infrastructure cooperation (including high-speed rail, cybersecurity, indigenous OS systems for both desktop and mobile to protect against cyberattacks and Zionist spying, banking sector cooperation, etc.). In 2021, the final year of Rouhani's presidency, the nicest car that could be seen on the road was the Peugeot Pars. Domestically produced decent cars like Dena and Tara had barely just come out and it was like finding a rare Pokemon to see one actually on the road.

In 2022, after one year of President Raisi, Denas and Taras started to become more common, and not very long after that, due to a sensible policy with Beijing based on mutual respect for each other's sovereignty, luxury Chinese cars started to enter the market, many of them being partially produced in Iranian factories which led to employment for many Iranians, rather than a handful of importers and car dealers. Cars like KMC and Lamari are made under Chinese license. Suddenly the gloomy image of Iran being doomed by having awful cars like Pride and Peugeot went out the window as decent cars started to no longer be a rarity on the streets of Iran.

Just because China has some disagreeable policies doesn't mean we can't have a mutually beneficial relationship with them.

If China had its own Rouhani and Zarif, it would have never become a strong pole that it is today.

China prioritized domestic development and harnessing the talent of its bright, talented scientific minds. It prioritized domestic production instead of import dependence. It sought to stand on its own two feet as a strong and powerful nation first and then dealing with the rest of the world from a position of strength. Liberal presidents like Rouhani did the opposite, by opposing domestic production, preferring import reliance, and not incentivizing young bright minds to remain in Iran and build it up.

China is one of the few countries on earth where young people can even hope of home ownership, because President Xi said that homes are for residence, not market speculation. Unfortunately, due to the liberal administrations of Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Rouhani pursuing neoliberal economic models, Iranian technocrats and so-called "experts" blindly copied the failed western models and thus the same problems of high entry prices into home ownership markets making it impossible for young people to own a home, or even rent an apartment (cheap monthly rent, but insanely high deposit costs equaling thousands of dollars — technically refundable after the contract expiry but who has thousands of dollars sitting around in the first place to put the deposit down at the beginning of the contract?). The housing bubble started under Rouhani specifically because he purposefully caused housing prices to go up but only in Tehran, hoping to reduce the overcrowding issue of Tehran, but it instead made the whole country's real estate market prices explode upwards. The real solution would have been to follow Shaheed Raisi's model of investing in the economies of smaller cities and rural areas so that people don't feel the need to leave towards Tehran to earn a larger income.

China regularly jails and executes corrupt officials and bankers, while Rouhani caused a big drama after his brother was found guilty of embezzlement. Justice was obstructed because the threat of political instability in a country surrounded by enemies was a much graver cost than dealing with the president's corrupt brother. China creates a very specific path for becoming wealthy: do not earn wealth at the expense of the country and the people, their wealth must be parallel to national development and a good standard of living for the people, and must not be earned via bloodsucking.

Even though China is officially an atheist Communist country, it more embodies the spirit of Islamic prohibitions on usury (which in reality is sucking the blood of the people, especially the poor and deprived) than the neoliberal model cemented by Rafsanjani and Rouhani. In fact, Rouhani wrote in his 2010 book National Security and Economic System of Iran about how Iran should follow a neo-Keynesian approach. John Maynard Keynes was an English economist who popularized one of the many flavors of neoliberal economics. Keynesianism is in rivalry with other flavors of neoliberal economics such as the Chicago School of Milton Friedman, but they are just different methodology of the same materialist-driven worldview and both have zero problem with a system that exists under the shadow of institutionalized/systemic usury — Keynes and Friedman would only differ on what happens underneath the umbrella of systemic usury.

While Japan and South Korea have opened the floodgates of "sissy boy" culture, China has banned such portrayals of effeminate men on all cultural mediums such as TV. Meanwhile, liberal presidencies have opened the floodgates for western culture, liberalism, individualism, feminism, and more things which corrupt the youth and encourage them to have empty minds consumed by materialism and vanity, whereas Chinese youth have social media feeds filled with content related to STEM and other intellectual materials instead of narcissistic brainrot like endless selfies.

It's quite ironic that liberal reformists will curse China, slander China, and when they have political power they sabotage economic and diplomatic relations with China, but the only time they weave quite beautiful verses of prose and poetry for China is when it comes to justifying their big dream of capitulating to the US. Only when it comes to the liberals' so-called "negotiations" with the US, they suddenly are lovers of China.