The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is justified and sanctions on Chinese entities for dealing in Iranian oil are justified.
So “Fu Cong, China’s punchy UN ambassador,” who has just taken over the post of president of the Security Council, has no excuse for chastising the United States for these policies (South China Morning Post, May 2, 2026).
In many ways over many years, the United Nations has made the case for its own dissolution. One of the ways is by periodically handing “leadership” of things like human rights councils and security councils to the representatives of anti-rule-of-law, anti-rights, anti-security nations like the People’s Republic of China, which shouldn’t even be a member of the United Nations or the Security Council let alone be eligible to preside over that or any UN council.
Bullying
Now we have Fu Cong using a UN-conferred pedestal to wag his finger at the United States for seeking to end Iran’s China-assisted ability to threaten the U.S. and many other countries.
“The Iran war is the biggest example of the rise of unilateralism, power politics and some bullying practice by certain partners. And it is dealing heavy blows to the rule of law in international affairs,” he says, as if the U.S. and Israel had just bombed Luxembourg or Monaco.
Fu said it was up to Iran and Washington to stop blocking the [Strait of Hormuz], through which some 20 per cent of the world’s oil flows.
“The most urgent issue is to keep the ceasefire. And the ceasefire needs to last, and there has to be a good-faith negotiation between the two sides,” he said.
“I think the international community should be mobilised and raise our voices against the resumption of fighting.”…
Fu denied that Beijing was assisting Tehran’s war effort.
“There is no military cooperation between China and Iran,” he told reporters in the UN Secretariat building, without addressing any dual-use Chinese shipments.
“The allegations from some of the US officials, they were false. But we are very sympathetic to what the Iranian people are enduring with, as I said, the illegitimate war that was imposed on the people.”
It’s a month-long gig, so we can expect these kinds of presidency-elevated preachments for the rest of May.
Also see:
New York Post: “China’s silent war: How Beijing armed, funded, and enabled Iran”
“The economic lifeline is paired with a steady flow of military and technological assistance. Chinese companies export dual‑use components that feed directly into Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs. Those systems now show up in the hands of proxies firing on U.S. naval vessels and commercial shipping.”
FDD: “5 Things To Know About China’s Wartime Support for Iran”
“China has thrown a lifeline to Iran’s embattled petroleum industry…. Chinese chemical shipments may be fueling Iran’s missile arsenal…. China underwrites Iran’s shadow economy…. China’s commercial satellite sector provides imagery to Iranian forces…. China provides Iran diplomatic cover against U.S. pressure.”
