China investing in Iran $280 billion to $400 billion in Iran, while in Pakistan only $65 billion to $70 billion. While it can invest in Railway and Fiber Internet projects in all over the country..
{Please refrain from anti irani, sectarian and propaganda discussion, but healthy discussion}
a specific number of how much will China invest in Iran was never mentioned in the leaked draft of the investment agreement.
China-Iran Relations: The Myth of Massive Investment
The text of the agreement has not yet emerged, and likely will not be published, so all analysis must be tempered with caution. However,
a draft of the agreement leaked last summer, and it is unlikely the text substantially changed in the intervening six months. Furthermore, multiple outlets report that their sources have said there is little changed from the leaked agreement. What can be said about the deal based on this leaked draft?
No Specific Commitments, No $400 Billion Investment
First off, nowhere in the text of this or any other official document or pronouncement is any numerical figure mentioned. There are also no provisions whatsoever for the sale of islands, military bases, occupation, or anything that would sustain the other alarmist claims. This has been thoroughly debunked by multiple scholars, and a quick glance at the text will confirm their claims. While the draft itself appears to be genuine,
the claims of $400 billion of Chinese investment and massive military concessions can be traced to a poorly sourced Petroleum Economy article from 2019, which has since been taken offline.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Zhao Lijian said the day after that
the China-Iran Strategic Comprehensive Agreement “
neither includes any quantitative, specific contracts and goals nor targets any third party, and
will provide a general framework for China-Iran cooperation going forward.”
The same day,
Reza Zabib, head of East Asia at Iran Foreign Ministry,
called the agreement a “non-binding document.” In response to why the text has not been published, he claimed that “there is a legal requirement to publish agreements; however, the publication of non-binding documents is not common.”
Both sides have now admitted that the plan contains no “quantitative, specific contracts” and is a “non-binding document.” In my view, this confirms what was signed was little changed from the leaked agreement last summer.
The agreement can best be described as an aspirational document. It is a signal that Iran may grow closer to China, but not a guarantee.
It provides no methods for enforcement, measurable goals, or specific programs.
Why the 25-Year China-Iran Strategic Cooperation Agreement isn’t a “big deal,” literally or figuratively.
thediplomat.com
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just to be clear I'm not denying or confirming any figure, I'm just saying there has been no reliable source that mentioned a numerical figure of how much China will invest in Iran, and the leaked agreement doesn't mention any figure.
However with all that said we do know that China does buy oil from Iran in exchange for Chinese goods and services, and over the course of several decades the value of the Iranian oil purchased will obviously exceed 280$ billion (it would be rather weird if it didn't). And while it's admirable that China continues to buy oil from Iran not giving a flying F about US sanctions however aside from the US dollar probably not being used in these transaction between China and Iran there is nothing special or extraordinary about this agreement when compared to how other countries buy oil, it is meaningless to try to inflate the value Iranian oil sold buy counting the total sold over decades, I mean Iraq sells 70$ billion worth of oil each year and other GCC countries sell much more, 70$ billion over say 2 decades would equal 1.4 trillion dollars, does that mean that Iraq will become a trillion dollar economy? No it does not.