Save your spot at 50-Cent Army Livestream: https://chinauncensored.tv/programs/april-2026-livestream Saturday, April 25 @8pm EST Reports are coming out that China is now arming Iran, a huge escalation that could make this war much, much worse. Trump and China are denying it, but Chinese state media paint a different picture...
China is helping Iran fight the U.S.
Here's how.
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So if you've been watching China Uncensored, you know that the Chinese Communist Party
and the Iranian regime have been friends for a long time.
Iran supplied China with cheap oil.
And China helped prop up the Iranian regime with money and infrastructure investments.
And yet, when the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, China was nowhere to
be seen.
Oh sure, there was the obligatory condemnation of the attacks.
And there were rumors that the CCP was shipping missile-making materials to Iran.
But nothing concrete.
And it's all dual-use chemicals anyways.
Sure, those could be used for the military, but it could also be for totally civilian
use.
But now, that might be changing.
Last week, both CNN and the New York Times reported that according to U.S. intelligence
agencies, China is now secretly taking an active stance in the war.
By prepping a weapons shipment to Iran.
This is more than just about sending chemicals, fuel, and components for dual-use military
applications.
According to both outlets, China's sending out shoulder-fired missiles, also known as
manpads.
Manpads.
These kinds of weapons are easy to transport, conceal, and use.
The weapon of choice for terrorists and criminals.
So I guess they're not trying to kill people with kindness.
This is reportedly being done through third countries to mask their true origin.
Which is a classic CCP move.
In the late 1980s, China used North Korea to export HY-2 Silkworm cruise missiles to
Iran, which Iran used to fight in the Iran-Iraq War.
In the early 2000s, the CCP used Iran to export small arms and IEDs to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Though, given how well Chinese military equipment performed recently in Iran and Venezuela,
I'm not sure that'll be much help.
But it's not just weapons China has been sending Iran's way, according to veteran journalist
Sasha Ingber, citing an anonymous source.
Late last month, China was sharing intel on U.S. troops and equipment with Iran.
Now, this wouldn't be the first time China's helped out Iran.
As I've pointed out in past episodes, China has also been a key supplier for all kinds
of assets in Iran—everything from domestic surveillance systems to drones, weapons for
Iranian proxies like Hamas.
And that barely scratches the surface.
In fact, China's main arms manufacturers all have a physical presence in Tehran.
None of this is surprising.
Back in 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement.
And back in 2015, China signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, allowing China's
Beidou Navigation Satellite System—not to be confused with the Beidou from Genshin Impact,
another horrifying Chinese product—to transfer satellite tech to Iran and establish ground
stations.
Which became available for military purposes in 2015 and fully integrated with Iran's
military in 2021.
On top of that, a year ago, the U.S. State Department confirmed reporting that Chinese
satellite technology company Changguang was directly supporting the Iran-backed Houthi
terrorist attacks on U.S. interests, including attacks on U.S. naval vessels.
So China had the back of the folks who had the back of the folks attacking the U.S.
By the transit of property, they're a-holes.
But all that was before Operation Epoch Theory began.
Now the war is on.
Or special military operation, whatever.
If it were to be discovered that China was directly helping Iran fight the U.S., that
would be a huge escalation.
Hence all the secrecy in sending stuff through third countries.
Which explains U.S. President Donald Trump's reaction last week.
Trump said on Truth Social,
A country supplying military weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed on any and all
goods sold to the United States of America, 50% effective immediately.
There will be no exclusions or exemptions.
And that includes China.
After mainstream media outlets reported on China's alleged manpad exports, Trump gave
this stark warning.
But then Trump did something a bit strange.
He told Fox News that he has doubts that China is selling weapons to Iran.
If we find that China, because I hear news reports, so a news report doesn't mean much
to me because they're so fake.
But I hear news reports about China giving the shoulder missiles, what's called the shoulder
missile, anti-aircraft missile.
I doubt they would do that because I have a relationship and I think they wouldn't do
that.
But maybe they did a little bit at the beginning, but I don't think they would anymore.
No.
But if we catch them doing that, they get a 50% tariff.
China wouldn't do that because he has a relationship with them?
This is like saying, I know she cheated on every one of her other boyfriends, but this
time will be different because she told me it would be.
But then, in a later interview, Trump talked about a letter she sent him.
He's somebody that needs oil, we don't.
He's somebody I get along with very well, just wrote me a beautiful letter.
He wrote you a letter?
Yeah, he did.
Wow.
That is some relationship.
I'm not jealous.
So anyway, what was in this letter?
I had heard that China is giving weapons to, I mean, you're seeing it all over the place
to Iran, that China is giving weapons.
Did he say he's giving them?
Yeah, and I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that, and he wrote me a letter saying
that essentially he's not doing that.
Of course not.
Why would China want to make money by selling weapons to an authoritarian regime fighting
the US?
You'd have to be crazy to think that.
So what is Trump doing?
Is he sweet-talking Xi ahead of their meeting next month?
Who knows?
Trump kind of just says stuff sometimes.
But while both the CCP and Trump say that this is not happening, Chinese state-run media
is taking a slightly different tact.
According to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, it's hard to say whether
Iran is currently relying on Beidou for drone and missile attacks.
But Chinese media has bragged about how Beidou satellite navigation enabled Iranian missile
precision.
In fact, tons of Chinese firms are marketing Iran war intelligence exposing US forces using
AI and open source data.
Kinda shooting yourself in the foot there, folks.
The Hangzhou-based firms Jing An Technology and Mizar Vision both claim to use AI to track
US bomber movements.
They're doing a poor job covering this up.
Mizar Vision even said that it's able to catalog activity at US bases in the Middle
East, track naval movements, and identify the positions of specific aircraft and missile
defense systems.
It even claimed to have tracked US military escalation ahead of its operation to capture
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Although given how Chinese envoys visited Venezuela just hours before the raid, I'm
pretty sure not even Chinese intelligence saw that coming.
Unless their grand plan to show strength military intelligence and planning was doing... nothing
strategically.
So is this the beginning of the end?
Is this World War 3?
Well, not so fast.
The thing is, all of these reports about weapon sales and shared intelligence comes from anonymous
sources, and even they say they don't have definitive proof.
As the New York Times reported, the officials said that the intelligence is not definitive
that the weapon systems shipment has been sent, and that there is no evidence that the
Chinese missiles have yet been used against American or Israeli forces during the conflict.
So although Tehran said it had used a new air defense system to hit the downed F-15
fighter jet without providing more details, that doesn't necessarily mean that China
was involved.
Of course, they could be.
After all, back during the Afghan war, the Taliban used weapons made in China, including
the Chinese HN-5 shoulder-fired missiles.
But right now, we just don't have enough data.
Yes, that's right, I said we don't have enough data.
You could learn a thing or two about news integrity from moi, mainstream media.
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