https://www.scmp.com/rss/503297/feed Ann Lee is an internationally recognised leading authority on China’s economic relations and author of What the US Can Learn from China and Will China’s Economy Collapse? She is also a former visiting professor at Peking University and an adjunct professor at New York University and Pace University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The assassination of Iranian major-general Qassem Soleimani by the United States may be explained by US President Donald Trump’s administration as a retaliation against and deterrence of Iranian aggression but, in reality, it may actually be a strategic provocation against China. To understand why this is the case and see how this particular action is merely one piece of a larger puzzle, one must take into account all of America’s foreign policy actions. Since the end of World War II, US foreign... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3044952/real-target-us-assassination-iranian-military-leader-qassen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3044952/real-target-us-assassination-iranian-military-leader-qassen?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:00:15 +0000