Diego Maradona: "İtalya'ya geldiğimde, herkes Baresi ile karşılaşmaktan korkuyordu. Bir maçta, Michel Platini bana şöyle dedi: 'Hey, yeni gelen. Sen pas vermekten çok top sürmeyi seviyorsun. Franco Baresi ile karşılaşınca ne olacağını bir görelim bakalım.' Ben de şöyle cevap verdim, 'Baresi mi? O kim ki? Ona gününü gösteririm.'
İki ay sonra, Milan ile San Siro'daki maç vardı. Carlo Ancelotti'yi top sürerek geçtim ve onu yere düşürdüm. Her şey kolay görünüyor gibiydi, golü rahatça atabileceğimi düşündüm. Aniden, arkamdan biri bana atıldı ve fark etmeden, o inanılmaz bir zarafetle ayağımdan topu kaptı.
İçimden 'Bu 6 numaralı adam kim?' dedim. O topu Mauro Tassotti'ye verdi ve yere düşen Ancelotti'ye şöyle dedi: 'Şu adamı bana bırak, ben hallederim.' İşte forvetlerin korktuğu Franco Baresi buydu. Önümde olağanüstü bir defans oyuncusu olduğunu anladım.
Bir maçın sonunda, onun formasını istedim ve San Paolo Stadyumu'nun ortasında onun formasını giydim. Bu, kariyerimde karşılaştığım en iyi defans oyuncusuna duyduğum saygının bir ifadesiydi." (Calcio Napoli)
You do not get to turn Iran’s strategic failures into a moral debt owed by China.
China defended Iran diplomatically, resisted sanctions, bought its oil, built infrastructure, and kept its economic lifeline alive while Tehran repeatedly gambled on Western approval and treated Chinese support as disposable.
Then Gaza burned.
Lebanon was ravaged by bloodshed.
Syria collapsed.
Iran watched—until the knife reached its own throat.
Now survival is repackaged as “selfless sacrifice,” and China is condemned because it refuses to bleed on command for someone else’s failures.
Iran should also remember March 2020.
While sanctions and flight restrictions were choking its access to medical supplies, ordinary Chinese people donated four million yuan to the Iranian Embassy within twenty-four hours.
Weeks later, an Iranian Health Ministry spokesman repaid that solidarity by calling China’s pandemic figures “a bitter joke” and joining the anti-China narrative Washington was weaponizing.
Tehran had to clean up the insult.
China still did not abandon Iran.
It continued opposing sanctions, buying Iranian oil, building infrastructure, and defending Iran diplomatically—even after Tehran’s fantasies about Western acceptance collapsed.
Even after Soleimani was killed, Iran answered with a carefully limited strike designed to close the confrontation, leaving intact the strategic reality that Washington had assassinated its most important commander and escaped a wider war.
So spare China the sermon about sacrifice.
China has shown Iran more loyalty than Tehran has repeatedly shown China.
What failed was not socialism.
What failed was a leadership that confused calibrated survival with moral grandeur, Western courtship with strategy, and Chinese patience with an obligation to die for Iran.
That is strategic patience—not servitude.
Iran’s leadership does not get to insult China when convenient, collect Chinese support when cornered, and then denounce socialism because Beijing refuses to sacrifice Chinese lives for Tehran’s failures.
China is not Tehran’s army.
Not its ideological servant.
Not its emergency sacrifice altar.
Stop confusing Chinese restraint with moral weakness and Iranian desperation with universal virtue.
A leadership that waited until annihilation approached before discovering resistance has no standing to lecture China about courage.
Gratitude would be appropriate.
Moral blackmail is not.
Indian expatriates are now asking Beijing to suppress Chinese public opinion while demanding more work visas and easier access to China.
The entitlement is extraordinary.
India has spent years restricting visas for Chinese citizens, obstructing normal travel, spreading anti-China narratives, and treating reciprocity as optional. Even its own ambassador now admits that New Delhi must simplify visa procedures for Chinese citizens.
In the first half of this year alone, China issued 450,000 to 480,000 visas to Indian citizens.
India issued fewer than 2,000 visas to Chinese citizens.
This is no longer an imbalance.
It is blatant, one-sided appeasement.
Yet China is still expected to keep opening its doors while ordering its own people not to notice the hostility.
Why has no comparable visa backlash emerged against most other nationalities—even those Chinese people historically distrust?
Because public resentment does not appear from nowhere.
Border confrontation.
Anti-China disinformation.
Visa asymmetry.
Endless online provocation.
Repeated abuse of Chinese hospitality—violating local rules, threatening women’s safety, polluting sacred land, smearing Chinese businesses, and even deliberately destroying return tickets to remain in China illegally until Chinese authorities were forced to remove them at public expense.
These consequences were manufactured by India—not by Chinese social media.
China is not obligated to silence its citizens, degrade its immigration standards, or import social friction merely to decorate a diplomatic “reset.”
Reciprocity first.
Respect first.
China is the China of the Chinese people—not a dumping ground for India’s entitlement.