Why do people keep thinking China has switched sides between Iran and Saudi Arabia? That’s the western colonial divide and conquer playbook, which has never been popular in Chinese strategic thinking. China has always been about promoting cooperation, unity and stability. As such, I think it’s far more likely China is doing what it has always been doing - maintaining good relations with both, and may even be able to help bridge their ideological divide and unite together.
In fact, this whole China has switched sides narrative sounds exactly like the kind of fake news the CIA/NED orchestrated western MSM would invent and promote to try to flip Iran. Because rather than China changing sides, this new elevated strategic partnership between China and Saudi Arabia signals the Saudis have flipped sides from the US to China.
Saudi Arab and Iran have far more in common than what divides them, and with America and Israel as common enemies, they could be bound into an extremely strong and powerful regional power block that can totally dominate the ME. That’s why the US and vassals are panicking and trying to sow division between China and Iran, because while they can try and balance China and Iran or China and SA by teaming up with the other, there is no one remotely powerful enough to counterbalance China and Iran and SA all on the same team.