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America woke up this week to a blunt warning from China expert Gordon Chang: Beijing isn’t just trading with Tehran, it’s running what he called propaganda blasts to shield and strengthen the Islamic regime. Chang spelled out on Life, Liberty & Levin how China’s messaging and diplomatic cover serve as a lifeline for a dangerous regime that despises Western values.
The substance behind those words is plain to see — China has inked long-term strategic ties with Iran, including the much-publicized 25-year cooperation framework that binds Beijing and Tehran across trade, energy, and infrastructure. This is not casual commerce; it is a state-level commitment that gives Iran breathing room to pursue malign regional ambitions even while the West dithers.
It gets darker when you look at the hard evidence of military facilitation: reporting shows Chinese-linked shipments and suppliers have been implicated in providing materials that can fuel Iran’s missile and UAV programs. Washington has even targeted networks and companies tied to Iran’s weapons procurements and identified actors based in China and Hong Kong that helped the regime build destructive capabilities.
Gordon Chang’s warning about propaganda is not hyperbole — Beijing’s state media and diplomats relentlessly push a narrative that portrays the United States as exhausted and indecisive, while offering diplomatic cover to Tehran. That propaganda matters because if authoritarian regimes believe America will flinch, they act more aggressively; the CCP’s messaging seeks to make that weakness self-fulfilling.
The global stakes are not theoretical: when China props up Iran economically and politically it empowers terror proxies, risks the security of the Gulf and strangles regional stability, all while protecting the flow of oil that fuels Chinese power. Beijing’s cautious diplomacy makes it no less complicit — it balances rhetoric with real economic support and hedging that preserves Iran’s ability to menace its neighbors and American interests.
Our government has taken some actions, including sanctions targeting procurement networks funneling weapons components to Tehran, but those moves are stopgaps against a far larger strategy of Beijing’s ascendancy. If the United States is to deter the CCP and deny Tehran the means and the cover to project terror, Washington must pair enforcement with a clear policy of economic and strategic decoupling where national security demands it.
This is a moment for American clarity, not Washington’s tired bipartisanship of appeasement and excuses. Voices like Mark Levin and experts such as Gordon Chang are right to say the true strategic threat to our republic is an expansionist China that uses economic lifelines and propaganda to bankroll and embolden bad actors around the world.
Hardworking Americans should demand that our leaders stop treating these threats like distant foreign policy puzzles and start treating them like national emergencies. Hold policymakers accountable: tougher sanctions, tighter export controls, and a foreign policy that restores American strength — not excuses — are the only way to protect our liberty from a rising partnership between two regimes that despise it.
