China is a founding member of the SCO ( Shandeigh cooperation orginization) Iran Pakistan and India have observer status
This was meant to be an eastern counter weight to NATO although all documents show a trade and commerce organization --- with goals of fighting crime terror and border security -- together
Arguments exist on whether they have a standing military treaty to defend each other or not --- and if they do does it legally apply to an observer state?
Oil is sold to China -- in China's currency saving both nations from having to buy US currency on the open market -- a savings of about 15 % per barrel
Chinese and Russians are working on a joint nuclear power plant in Iran - They are having immesnse difficulty meshing Russian and Chinese technology enough to run stable reactor cores with direct the energy of the fly away electrons from the unstable atoms flying apart - This separation of particles releases massive amounts of energy --- directing them via rods is essential
After months of trial and error they reached 5 % enrichment
Billions has been spent on this reactor The Russians and the Chinese are purposely trying to work together on atomic energy cooperation between scientists and military generals are being worked on daily
Iran needs to sell oil in order to have the economy they do -- the more power they can supply the people via nuclear plants the more they have to sell -- and they do need the money
China is looking to develop into a full fledged industrial power -- and that means oil
