CCPs Gains in Middle East Are Vanishing With Iran War: Zineb Riboua

Zineb Riboua, Hudson Institute research fellow, in Washington on March 4, 2026. The Epoch TimesFor two decades, the Chinese communist regime has been courting, investing, and coordinating with the Iranian regime, its proxies, and Gulf nations to build out a stronghold for its strategy of a new global order, says Hudson Institute research fellow Zineb Riboua, who said that ended with Operation Epic Fury.“From a U.S. perspective … being involved does not just mean helping an ally, it means reshaping the configuration of a Middle East that has been, for a very long time, I think, a Chinese chessboard,” Riboua said on “American Thought Leaders” on March 4. The full episode will run on EpochTV at 9 p.m.