Susan Shirk's Research Cited in China-Iran Article
China-Iran Ties: Assessment and Implications for U.S. Policy
04/21/2011
Michael Mazza,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)'s Critical Threats Project (CTP)
The China-Iran relationship poses a significant challenge to international efforts to isolate Iran and pressure its leaders to abandon their nuclear program. China has continued to develop tighter ties with the Islamic Republic even as Iranian weapons and facilitators kill Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrorist activities of Tehran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah threaten Israel, and Iranian centrifuges continue to enrich uranium. China continues to provide weapons to Iran, maintains extensive economic relations with it, and protects the Iranian regime at the United Nations Security Council. All of these activities have contributed to the ineffectiveness of Washington’s policies toward Iran. Although Chinese support for the Iranian regime has certainly frustrated American leaders, it has not harmed U.S.-China relations. China has offered Iran as much support as it can get away with without bringing reprisals upon itself.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
