Today, Israel carried out an airstrike against the China-Iran railway, marking the first direct attack on a key strategic asset of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
This is far from the first time Chinese Belt and Road assets have been attacked. It’s usually not this directly by a state actor, usually the US uses terrorist proxies to do it, but they have definitely been doing this for years and years. Chinese engineers have been killed and Chinese built infrastructure has been bombed by groups that are very clearly American backed proxies, across Pakistan, Myanmar and more. So China understands the game being played.
This is far from the first time Chinese Belt and Road assets have been attacked. It’s usually not this directly by a state actor, usually the US uses terrorist proxies to do it, but they have definitely been doing this for years and years. Chinese engineers have been killed and Chinese built infrastructure has been bombed by groups that are very clearly American backed proxies, across Pakistan, Myanmar and more. So China understands the game being played.