Newsmax⁠75%

Gordon Chang to Newsmax: China Fuels Iran War ⁠81%

By Charlie McCarthy⁠0%

6/28/2026, 6:13:05 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 22.8% saturation with 108 hits. Analysis detected 1,057 faulty-reasoning hits from 473 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠81% (4,168 of 21,180 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.30% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump must "bring the hammer down" on China to stop Beijing from supplying Iran with weapons and intelligence, China expert and author Gordon Chang told Newsmax on Sunday. 
Appearing on "Sunday Agenda" with co-hosts Joe Pinion and Christina Thompson, Chang argued that China's support for Tehran has allowed Iran to continue confronting the United States despite repeated U.S. military strikes. 
"China was supplying Iran during the war," Chang said. 
"They supplied them, for instance, with targeting information that the Iranians used to kill six Americans on March 1." 
Chang also alleged that Chinese military cargo planes landed in Iran during the conflict after turning off their transponders, saying Beijing continued providing weapons while helping sustain Iran's military capabilities. 
"Iran, in a very real sense, is a Chinese proxy," he said. 
"The Chinese are now enjoying watching Iran defy the United States." 
The comments came as tensions remain high after renewed fighting around the Strait of Hormuz threatened a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire. 
Trump has warned that the United States may have to "finish the job" militarily if Iran continues attacking commercial shipping and U.S. interests. 
Chang argued that China's relationship with Iran extends well beyond recent military assistance. 
He said Beijing has long supplied Iran's nuclear program with technology, equipment, and materials while continuing to purchase Iranian oil despite Western sanctions. 
China also remains Tehran's largest economic partner and has maintained close strategic ties under a long-term cooperation agreement. 
"Until President Trump starts to bring the hammer down on the Chinese, this agony is going to continue," Chang said. 
Asked whether Trump would eventually target China's support for Tehran, Chang said only the president can answer that question but predicted patience would eventually wear thin. 
"I think at some point President Trump will get tired of this," he said. 
"Otherwise, we are going to see the United States humiliated." 
Chang also warned that allowing Iran to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz could encourage China to press broader territorial claims in Asia, including over strategic waterways beyond the South China Sea. 
"The United States, if it's had any consistent foreign policy over the course of 250 years, it has been the defense of international airspace and water," he said. 
"This is not negotiable." 
He called recent statements by Iranian officials claiming authority over the Strait of Hormuz "completely unacceptable" and pointed to reports from Iranian state-affiliated media suggesting Tehran intends to pursue a nuclear weapon despite ongoing negotiations. 
To permanently secure commercial shipping, Chang argued the United States should consider deploying troops along the northern coast of the Strait of Hormuz while disrupting Chinese satellite signals that he said provide Iranian forces with targeting intelligence. 
"If we're not willing to do that," he said, "we're not serious about opening the Strait of Hormuz." 
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