主题：【原创】新年政治经济展望之二：中美博弈（一） -- 井底望天

the fundamentalists are totally incompetent in managing economy.

It is just like China in Mao's time: managers were promoted based on ideological benchmarks, not technical capability. Mao still has Chen Yun, what those crazy Irans have?

China's involvement in Iran is really a necessary burden: it provides crucial energy resources, but pushes China into confrontation with Jewish-America at an very early stage when China is still not strong enough.