As the four-week mark of the Iran War approaches on Saturday, China is increasingly orchestrating efforts to negotiate a solution to the crisis that has spiked energy markets and spooked countries around the world. It is facing its own hard-to-reconcile dilemma in the region. Beijing has much to lose not just economically but strategically as it tries to support Tehran, stay on good terms with the Gulf states which Iran has attacked, and prevent the U.S. and Israel from seizing broad strategic