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India never was an Iranian ally. Iran's intervention in Kashmir, its maltreating of Indian diplomats during 2002-3 etc have been weighed heavily against Iran. India deals with Iran on an economic basis. As of now, India gets a huge amount of money from Gulf countries through remittance which covers most of the oil cost. Essentially India gets free oil from GCC. When these countries ask India to not trade with Iran as they want their money to not flow into Iran, India can't refuse.
Similarly, China is no ally of Iran. It is just that it has economic surplus and hostility with USA that it is going on its own path. Moreover, China knows that GCC can't dump China as their relation with USA is deteriorating. Hence China is merely trying to take economic advantage rather than become a true friend.
No country will fight for trade treaties. Unless there is strategic relations that go deep like military alliance, natural resource monopoly trade etc. China consumes 13MBPD while its import from Iran is not even 5% of that. A 16 billion per annum of oil (400/25) means just 250 million barrels a year or about 0.66MBpd. There is nothing else that Iran offers. In fact Iran did not treat China well when it was in a position of dominance, showing the real intent of Iran. No country will risk its people's lives when there is no deeper relations
What are you saying? China will just give technology to Tom, Dick & Harry because they have trade relations? WHat exactly is Iran giving China in return?
USA gave F35 only to Israel and that is because Israel is a satellite of USA. Israel's entire existence depends on USA's mercy. But the Arab countries are not satellites of China or Russia to just handover technology
It was GCC which asked USA to sanction Iran and also agreed to raise oil production to make up for the losses from Iran sanctions.
North Korea is a satellite state of China. Pakistan is not. So, China does not consider Pakistan as an ally but merely a strategic partner whereas NK is an ally of China. There is a big difference between these two terms. China has not given technology transfer of JF17 or outdated C802 to Pakistan. China has 1 ally - North korea and 1 defence partner - Russia. None else even come close
1. Iranians are not Arabs, they are Persians.
2. China does not Willy Nilly hand out technology. If they are planning or even offering any transfers of technology or even sharing information, they have a strategy behind it.
3. For the Chinese to make a strategic partnership with Iran, indicates they have weighed all the benefits and risks and found the arrangement advantageous, especially if they announce it publicly.
4. Finally, the Chinese want to grow their exports, and arms are a product Iran needs and can afford through barter trading its oil and gas. They have publicly marketed the FC-31.
5. Would the Iranians spend so much money on 4th generation fighters, when they could so easily be outclassed when their adversaries acquire F-35s.
So it would be no surprise if the Iranians consider the FC-31 when it becomes a more mature platform. They could very well finance its development akin to how Pakistan financed half of the costs of the JF-17 Program.