Following on the bloody Galwan border incident on June 15 in which Chinese and Indian soldiers died, China and India appear to be recalibrating their relationship in multiple ways. In the Middle East, China has recently supplanted India in relations with Turkey and Iran.
Around the same time that tensions reached a peak following the Galwan incident, Iran finalized a 25-year strategic partnership deal with China worth $400 billion. A month later, Iran decided to end a 2016 deal with India for a rail project linking its Chabahar port with Afghanistan, citing a funding delay from India.
