Bad typo in the newsletter I just sent out, now corrected. Should read I think PRC policymakers are a bit shocked at how much success Israel has had so far in its war with Iran. They obviously DO NOT (Bill: sorry, that was a bad typo, now corrected) want the government to collapse like it did in Syria, but they have little influence on the outcome at this point and so are left making statements, including the kind of condemnation of Israel that they somehow could not make about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart:”