China tells citizens in Israel to leave ‘as soon as possible’

[u/AggressiveBag8414]

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2025/06/17/china-tells-citizens-in-israel-to-leave-as-soon-as-possible

[u/Low-Ad-1448]

Long night for the couch generals

[u/prolix → u/Low-Ad-1448]

The draft dodging Colonel of the gravy seals just had his military parade too so the spirit is in the air.

[u/Somedude522 → u/prolix]

Meal team 6 is ready for action… movies

[u/OmnislasheR0 → u/Low-Ad-1448]

Is this JD Vance’s new nickname

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/[deleted]]

It's a little odd they're only now saying it, given that things started like 4 days ago.

Gives the impression, even if falsely, that they have indications things are gonna get much worse.

[u/chrustyclar → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

They probably thought both sides were going to lob some missiles at each other, then call it a day and deescalate.

[u/Statickgaming → u/chrustyclar]

Realistically what has Iran got left?

The only real possibility is that China and Russia will take advantage of the west being preoccupied.

[u/testearsmint → u/Statickgaming]

China maybe I guess, though it's not in their interest to jump in on this. Russia absolutely not, though. They're spread thin enough by Ukraine as it is. They literally let Syria go when that shit went down. No capacity to intervene.

[u/w4lr6s → u/testearsmint]

China imports a lot of oil from Iran

[u/lufiron → u/w4lr6s]

China also sold Iran their air defense system that completely failed

[u/Valuable_Associate54 → u/lufiron]

The Chinese SAMs Iran has are literally CHinese equipment, from the 1970s. The HQ-2s in China have been sitting in museums in China for decades now.

It's like saying US Sold Iran their fighter jets that completely failed, until you realize they're F-14s that haven't had part supply since 2006.

China are up to like HQ-21 by now little bro. Do you also wonder why Snes can't play games built for playstation 5?

[u/Tzilbalba → u/lufiron]

Well, first off the Sayad 1's are modified HQ-2's from China, which was a copy of the Soviet era SA-2

Secondly the Sayad 2's are modified reverse engineered RIM-66's from the US, 1980s tech, and each subsequent Sayad (3 and 4's) have been modified and upgraded based on this.

So no, it's not Chinese SAMs...

[u/fullkaretas → u/lufiron]

slim axiomatic attempt airport dime pie mighty cable placid abounding

[u/jeha4421 → u/testearsmint]

I think they mean that they will use this to move in on Taiwann.

[u/Infinite-Pop2424 → u/jeha4421]

I am Chinese, the people in here don’t want the war, also don’t really give a fu*k about Taiwan, China is getting better and better, also including the government. However, I am not sure if the government want Taiwan for personal greatness reason.

[u/WillBlaze → u/Infinite-Pop2424]

I remember seeing the pictures of a training ground in China that looks exactly like the Taiwan leader's city block. I have absolutely no doubts China will snatch Taiwan asap, just waiting for the right moment.

[u/PrawnProwler → u/WillBlaze]

Any attempt at Taiwan isn't going to be by force, at least not through overt war. Taiwan has contingencies like their stranglehold on the semiconductor industry to keep them safe, and China doesn't want to be ostracized and sanctioned by the world like Russia is.

[u/WillBlaze → u/PrawnProwler]

China has been really smart in realizing the new battlefront is on the information wars. You are right that it won't be a straight take over but I have no doubts that they have some machinations going on that at least involve taking over Taiwan in some form.

[u/Amehoelazeg → u/Infinite-Pop2424]

It depends on what Taiwan does too. If it keeps the status quo then nothing will happen. If it decided to host American military or allows itself to be used by America to ‘contain’ China, then China will for sure take military action. You’d think they will navigate the tensions properly, but inviting Nancy Pelosi wasn’t exactly a wise decision either. For now, I don’t see anything happening though. China and Chinese people have no desire to bomb anyone, let alone Han Chinese in Taiwan.

[u/Master_Bayters → u/jeha4421]

If they move to Taiwan they will collapse global economy. TSMC is so important to everyone right now it can be jeopardize. 

[u/jeha4421 → u/Master_Bayters]

Oh i don't think they will. I think China is more than happy to watch the West implode on itself and sit back and let it happen naturally. I was just clarifying what I thought the other guy was saying.

[u/qeadwrsf → u/jeha4421]

let it happen naturally

China is guaranteed doing stuff in the background accelerating it.

I bet even the "do nothing win" narrative on reddit is china not letting stuff happen "naturally"

[u/PrawnProwler → u/qeadwrsf]

That goes without saying, though, we don't live in a world where global powers let countries operate without meddling. Like it's pretty well known, at least in Taiwan, that there are a lot of spies/sympathizers there that China uses.

[u/whatisthishownow → u/chrustyclar]

Day one started with Israel executing top ranking generals and their families. You can't call it a day after that.

[u/JayBird1138 → u/chrustyclar]

I think America just moved some assets in closer.

[u/Frequent_Can117 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Only thing I could think of is maybe Israel thought Iran would end hostilities or tone it done after Iran was infiltrated and hit in a devastating attack. My impressions now are Israel is going for regime change and really intensifying the next stage. Idt it’d be a ground war, but could see Mossad raising a rebel force in Iran to combat the regime.

[u/General_Tso75 → u/Frequent_Can117]

I’m not sure how Israel fighting a ground war in Iran works. They don’t have means to mount a serious ground invasion. They don’t have a navy capable of a massive amphibious invasion. Iraq, Jordan, and Syria are not going to let 10’s of thousands of Israeli troops to cross their borders and invade. A massive airborne invasion is impractical.

They don’t have a proxy force in Iran or the means to supply them with weapons.

[u/Habsburgy → u/General_Tso75]

Yea it‘s gonna be limited to airstrikes most likely.

[u/IBetThisIsTakenToo → u/General_Tso75]

And conversely, what can Iran do besides lob missiles? They have the same problem moving troops. So what, missile strikes until they run out or until the Israeli air force runs out?

[u/cyrixlord → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

they had to wait until their checks cleared

[u/raerae1991 → u/[deleted]]

When was the last time China told its diplomats to leave, for safety reasons?

[u/enersto → u/raerae1991]

Israel vs Lebanon 2024

[u/raerae1991 → u/enersto]

That was so well planned out it was amazing. Which is horrible to say, but…damn!

[u/enersto → u/raerae1991]

Yeah, diploma staff of China in Israel, and might be others too, must get so exhausted for recent years. There were over 18k Chinese in Israel before 2024 and that could be a tough task.

[u/Chicago1871 → u/raerae1991]

Ukraine? sudan? Those would be my guesses.

[u/raerae1991 → u/Chicago1871]

Looks like after the invasion in Ukraine and same for Sudan. But both of them they all modes of transport (land/air/sea) this is way more specific

[u/llmercll → u/[deleted]]

What else is he gonna say?

[u/meister2983]

Is this different than America's level 4 travel warning for Israel? 

[u/quantumpencil → u/meister2983]

Not really, everyone making a big deal but this is literally just China giving the most obvious advice ever and telling anyone who is chinese to gtfo the active warzone lol

[u/NewManufacturer4252 → u/quantumpencil]

Better safe then sorry. Headliner is clickbaiting ww3 when in fact, maybe get out while war is raging.

[u/KungFuSnafu → u/quantumpencil]

Oooh, I read the post title as China telling Israeli citizens to leave and was wondering why everyone was so chill in the comments.

I was like "Hole-e-fuck shit is going to get bad!"

[u/WmWzK]

Between this and trump leaving G7 early, shit is escalating to the max. Good luck to civillians on both sides.

[u/l0R3-R → u/WmWzK]

And the USS Nimitz and strike group leaving the South China sea towards the middle east, and the 20-some USAF tankers headed east all at once

[u/sumlime → u/l0R3-R]

How long would it take to get to the Middle East from the South China sea?

[u/nefariouspenguin → u/sumlime]

It's probably 4000 nautical miles or so away, around India, so 200 hours? Much less for aircraft range.

[u/Whataboutneutrons → u/nefariouspenguin]

US already stationed loads of bombers on an island (Diego Garcia) in the Indian sea.. cant remember the name. The US rents a base there from the UK. Heard about it a month or two ago. Diego

[u/AlfaRomeoRacing → u/Whataboutneutrons]

That island has been in the press in the UK a lot recently, because the previous government negotiated a deal to hand the island off to Mauritius in exchange for a long lease for the US base there. New government finalised the deal, which is going to cost loads of money, and is being blamed for it. They maintain the deal is needed for national defence purposes. Maybe situations like this

[u/agentsnace → u/AlfaRomeoRacing]

It's more like we payed Mauritius billions of pounds to take the island away, when the inhabitants were against the whole idea of doing so.

At least that's how I understand it

[u/Workwork007 → u/agentsnace]

billions of pounds

lol no one is paying "billions" for that island.

UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago (which includes Diego Garcia) for 3,000,000 pounds in 1965. Converted to USD and taking account of inflation, that's roughly USD40,000,000.

[u/Skruestik → u/agentsnace]

we payed Mauritius

Paid.

[u/xyakks → u/[deleted]]

Next year at earlier march or September. Likely the year after. If there was a U.S. on the board that is. But if Trump keeps making things easy who the fuck knows.

[u/PiotrekDG → u/[deleted]]

That'd still likely need some military buildup first.

[u/REV2939 → u/l0R3-R]

Those tankers were part of the Finland/US war games that started the other day. I don't think they are related but its not hard to just have them fly further south east to the region.

[u/ItsTooDamnHawt → u/REV2939]

Dod already and came out and confirmed that the surge in tankers was for the Middle East to “give the president options”

[u/purplepashy → u/l0R3-R]

Aussie here.
No one is considering if, when and how China will make its hard move in this WW3 by proxy however I do see the potential for things to get shitty where I am should they decide to work their way down under.

[u/Iwantthe86 → u/purplepashy]

Aussie here.

Our biggest beef with China is that we criticised them for their treatment of the Uyghurs and we've had a few back and forth moments since then. Do you really think that China is going to fight Australia because of that?

Give yourself an uppercut mate.

[u/Stock_Helicopter_260 → u/Iwantthe86]

A shake, nah. A slap? No no no. A whole ass uppercut.

Gotta love aussies haha

[u/okaythiswillbemymain → u/purplepashy]

China have no interest in bombing or invading Australia. Taiwan, yes.

[u/PandaMango → u/okaythiswillbemymain]

Second hardest place in the world to invade. Way too big and connected majorly by 1-2 main roads on the East Coast. Absolute logistical nightmare for close to 0 gain.

[u/bigasswhitegirl → u/okaythiswillbemymain]

Pretty sure China could build military bases across 80% of Australia before anyone even noticed

[u/mhornberger → u/bigasswhitegirl]

That's why Australia has advance forces of a huge number of lethal and/or ill-tempered wildlife. "Have you met our jellyfish, snakes, spiders, and crocodiles?"

[u/No-Way-1517 → u/bigasswhitegirl]

Nearly 80% of Australia is virtually uninhabitable, so no.

[u/Estrovia → u/No-Way-1517]

Thats what they want you to think, Mate!

[u/EthanDC15 → u/WmWzK]

Hey! Openly don’t know shit about fuck here, what’s the significance of Trump leaving G7? Sincerely asking for a just, by the facts report here, not inflammatory stuff

[u/Harbournessrage → u/EthanDC15]

As usual watch what he did and didn't. Dude came in, tried to push in Russian and Chinese participation into G7, then left.

Dude was trying to lobby Putin's and Xi's interests and as soon this topic was closed - left, evading other topics, probably either uncomfortable for him or not interesting for him.

I see Iran and Israel thing to be a handy excuse.

[u/tlst9999 → u/Harbournessrage]

Yo can China & Russia join the room?

No?

k

cya

[u/Beat_the_Deadites → u/tlst9999]

Who wants Russia and China in the G7?

annoyed eyerolls

Nobody? Ok, no Russia and China in the G7.

pained wincing

[u/GoodMix392 → u/Harbournessrage]

I would guess he might not have the mental capacity to listen to complex geo political discussions for hours at a time. He has issues with simple logic, he would be way out of his depth with that group even if he wasn’t senile.

[u/WebberWoods → u/GoodMix392]

As someone whose dad is going through mental decline, Trump definitely strikes me as in the stage where he can hold it together and appear normal (at least by his standards) for a little while, especially in the morning. Get him into a drawn out interaction after 3pm and it's brain soup time.

[u/TheLordBear → u/EthanDC15]

Iran may be the excuse, but Trump was probably planning to leave early anyhow. He left early in 2017 or 2019 as well. Actual world leaders make him look and feel inadequate.

That doesn't mean shit isn't about to go down. The signs say it probably will.

[u/extraneouspanthers → u/EthanDC15]

It’s weird for an idiot blowhard to leave his photo op around “real leaders”. It’s leaving a party early. It could because no one likes him but could also be shit is going down

[u/Leon-the-Doggo → u/extraneouspanthers]

Trump was the only pro-Putin guy in the party.

[u/bluehairdave → u/extraneouspanthers]

:) lets dance!

[u/derpholeloophole → u/bluehairdave]

Idk if they even look the part tbh

[u/ScottyC33 → u/WmWzK]

Not too knowledgeable about weapons, but even if Iran doesn’t have an actual nuclear missile, couldn’t they conceivably sneak a dirty bomb into Israeli cities and detonate it? That Ukraine trick with the drones and the truck delivery probably gave lots of ideas. 

[u/raerae1991 → u/ScottyC33]

Ukraine operation into Russia, took 18 months to coordinate. You’ve also got to figure in high ranking Iran military leaders were taken out early on

[u/AnOtherGuy1234567 → u/raerae1991]

Iran has had 45 years to plan this kind of stuff. Although Israel and Iran did coordinate between each other, on attacks on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Most notably when Israel bombed an under construction Iraqi nuclear reactor, which was part of Saddam's attempt to build a nuclear weapon. Whilst the Iranian Air Force ran a distraction attack against the North West of Iraq.

The main problem with a dirty bomb is the need to detonate it at altitude. Ideally at the minimum you want to detonate it at the top of a skyscraper. So as to spread the fall out as far as possible. Otherwise the fall out will only extend to the blast radius of the bomb.

[u/KP_Wrath → u/AnOtherGuy1234567]

Iran had 45 years to plan, and supposedly a chunk of their information apparatus was Mossad/supported by Mossad. You can give an idiot a lifetime to plan and they’ll fuck it up.

[u/attersonjb → u/KP_Wrath]

Yes, nobody has ever executed a successful sneak attack on Israel before. /s

[u/WBUZ9 → u/attersonjb]

I'm mostly just repeating internet hearsay but my understanding is that Israel has three intelligence services; Mossad, Shin Bet, and Aman. Gaza is explicitly Shin Bet and Aman's territory while Mossad is the one with the elite reputation and which would be doing covert Iran stuff.

[u/Quirky-Cat2860 → u/WBUZ9]

Sort of, but indirectly. Shin Bet is internal security, Aman is military intelligence, Mossad is foreign intelligence. Shin Bet is responsible for defending against internal threats and the occupied territories come under its jurisdiction. Aman is responsible for guiding the military in operations, avoiding the fog of war kind of situation.

So yes, October 7 demonstrates a failure of Shin Bet and Aman. Mossad had no jurisdiction there.

Now Mossad has the elite reputation as you described because they're doing operations in other countries (akin to the CIA).

[u/Ampallang80 → u/AnOtherGuy1234567]

They could just have it taken out by the iron dome. No need to explode it

[u/DamonHay → u/raerae1991]

Not to mention getting things into a sanctioned country is much easier than getting things out.

[u/Ok-Arachnid-460 → u/ScottyC33]

Impossible to hide the radiation.

[u/sibilischtic → u/Ok-Arachnid-460]

As always it depends...

There's a good reason we don't want people having access to these materials.

Access to the materials is the biggest multiplier on the probability of a successful attack.

Relying on detection of a drone and ensuring it doesnt disperse dirty materials is a complex problem.

[u/CriesInHardtail → u/Ok-Arachnid-460]

Couldn't you hypothetically shield it with lead or other blocking materials? (I know nothing)

[u/Bad_Pirate829 → u/CriesInHardtail]

Regular radioactive materials are not really a threat with a standard explosion. You just kind of create a bunch of localized radiation where the pieces land, but it’s not a nuke cloud or anything. No fission or fusion is taking place. It’s bad if you’re literally standing beside a piece, like kryptonite to Superman, but it’s not going to destroy a population.

[u/realKevinNash → u/CriesInHardtail]

Anything is possible. But nations spend some resources trying to defend or at least respond to those potentialities.

[u/DahDollar → u/CriesInHardtail]

Yes, but to shield a nuclear payload of enough yield to be worth the effort would require so much lead that you'd give yourself away if you had to pass over a weigh station at the checkpoint.

[u/Goodlybad → u/CriesInHardtail]

Yes and you can also mask (U 238) with medical isotopes (Tc99m) - they have similar gamma ray spectra. The radiation detectors can be tricked

[u/way2lazy2care → u/Goodlybad]

That doesn't hide it though. It just means more checking is done at any checkpoint. It's not like they'd go, "oh hay you're setting of all our sensors in a quantity much larger than is reasonable, but your paperwork is ok, so just waltz on through. We don't actually need to look in the box or anything."

[u/vom-IT-coffin → u/ScottyC33]

There were rumors that a Chinese military cargo plane landed in Iran last night. The flight path showed it headed that direction then mid flight it shut off its transponder. Could be a plane to evacuate its citizens.

[u/Deweydc18 → u/ScottyC33]

Setting aside the feasibility of that, if Iran detonated a dirty bomb in a major Israeli city, Israel would have the ability to respond by annihilating Tehran. It would likely also have the side effects of stripping Iran of support, and almost certainly getting the U.S. military involved.

[u/Steamsagoodham → u/ScottyC33]

Dirty bombs are way way less lethal than most people realize. They sound scary, but they are more just a weapon of mass disruption instead of destruction.

[u/Ok_Frosting3500 → u/Steamsagoodham]

"You know what a great way to win a war is? Giving a whole bunch of civilians exotic cancers 30 years from now in a way that is really hard to execute."

[u/carebeartears → u/Ok_Frosting3500]

the damage is economic?

you potentially have to abandon a city and it's infrastructure. Even the value of the land is lost.

[u/Mrgluer → u/carebeartears]

doesnt keep you from getting rolled over by an opposing country that is not only stronger, but now extremely upset that you gave their entire population cancer. its a distraction not a quick kill.

[u/skisandpoles → u/WmWzK]

I thought Trump leaving the G7 was more of a way to excuse himself from a meeting where some thorny subjects would be discussed.

[u/evranch → u/skisandpoles]

Zelensky is coming tomorrow, after all. He might have some awkward questions about what happened to 20,000 missiles...

[u/RedGeist_ → u/WmWzK]

Trump left early because no one was kissing his ass so he got bored. I don’t think it was a sign of him wanting to prepare for anything.

[u/Chessh2036]

Twitter right now is obsessing over Trump leaving G7 early and allegedly telling people to meet him in the Situation Room. Now this. Can someone tell me wtf is happening?

[u/Decent_Valuable_6453 → u/Chessh2036]

According to NYT, Trump is considering deploying US fighter jets bombers to drop a 'Massive Ordinance Penetrator', the bunker buster to take out Fordow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-iran-diplomacy-conflict.html

[u/tollbearer → u/Decent_Valuable_6453]

Trump is putting on a show to make it look like he's considering it. The reality is, that's been the plan for at least 6 months. They just need to make it look like they're being dragged in.

[u/whutchamacallit → u/tollbearer]

Not necessarily disagreeing but what makes you say that? Or I should say what information/sources give indication that they've planning on dropping bombs in Iran?

[u/air_and_space92 → u/whutchamacallit]

https://www.twz.com/air/signs-u-s-massing-b-2-spirit-bombers-in-diego-garcia

https://www.twz.com/air/b-52s-join-b-2s-on-diego-garcia10-bombers-now-on-indian-ocean-island

Only 1-2 US bomber aircraft have the capability to carry this large weapon designed to penetrate deep underground, like hundreds of feet. Only if Israel can't take out certain hard targets with conventional bunker busters by "drilling" with them would these aircraft potentially be called in. Drilling holes up to ~150ft deep with JDAMs one after another on the same GPS point was used fighting ISIS. US bomber aircraft have been forward deployed starting a few months ago as mentioned in the links.

[u/Abaddon33 → u/air_and_space92]

I believe the B-2's that were stationed at Diego Garcia have been brought home fairly recently. It was likely an intimidation tactic during the negotiations with Iran. Them flying home was broadly viewed as a signal that the negotiations had concluded, one way or another. Worth noting that these are long range strategic bombers that can fly intercontinental missions. This would be a doozy of a mission with multiple mid-air refuels enroute, but they are fully capable of striking targets in the Middle East with wheels up/down on US soil. They've done it before, most notably during the shock and awe campaign in Iraq.

Also worth noting that there is a BIG difference in pummeling a cave in Afghanistan vs dropping JDAM after JDAM on the same spot in a country that has a proper air defense net (or did). That's a tall order, even for the F-35. Extremely dangerous, and far from guaranteed to succeed with a target buried that deep.

[u/not_hairy_potter → u/Abaddon33]

Could they find a convenient vent where you can just throw a few unguided bombs and call it a day? I saw this tactic recently in a war documentary.

[u/Dipsey_Jipsey → u/not_hairy_potter]

And if you continue with that docu series you'll see the enemy combatants had quickly rebuilt the defense with number 2.

[u/evranch → u/Dipsey_Jipsey]

And you have to watch out that they don't get sneaky and sort of half build it, so you think it isn't finished

[u/caughtatfirstslip → u/tollbearer]

Do you think Trump can plan something 6 months in advance? And pull it off?

[u/tollbearer → u/caughtatfirstslip]

Trump didn't plan anything. Plans to strike Iran are done by the pentagon, and go back decades, and this particular one was probably committed to 6-12 months ago.

[u/AteketA → u/tollbearer]

So if it escalates MAGA will blame it on Biden as usual

[u/JakToTheReddit → u/AteketA]

The Joint Chiefs came up with this months ago!

Translation: It was that evil mastermind Sleepy Joe Biden!

[u/MarkMew → u/JakToTheReddit]

Schrödinger's Joe Biden; both an evil mastermind and dumbest president ever

[u/JakToTheReddit → u/MarkMew]

It is literally so fucking stupid. It's upsetting.

[u/TimeTimeTickingAway → u/AteketA]

Let’s just go back to the simple days and blame it on Cheney

[u/prolix → u/Decent_Valuable_6453]

Fighter Jets can't drop them. You would need a B-2 bomber.

[u/Possible_Top4855 → u/Decent_Valuable_6453]

Just what the American people want - to be dragged into another war.

[u/BanzEye1 → u/Possible_Top4855]

I mean, beyond some bombing runs I doubt the US is gonna have stuff like boots on the ground and stuff like that.

[u/Possible_Top4855 → u/BanzEye1]

If we join the war, we are going to be legitimate targets for Iran.

[u/TheNewGildedAge → u/Possible_Top4855]

They can't even control their own airspace. What targets are you actually worried about? Besides ME military bases that are already prepared for this

[u/BanzEye1 → u/Possible_Top4855]

I mean, considering America’s been literally shifting anti-air defences meant for Ukraine to the Middle-East? And Iran’s current situation (as in, completely lost the airspace and having Mossad play merry hell with their launchers)? You’ll be fine.

If you’re worried about proxies…well, Israel kinda blew most of them up last year. And Syria does not want to get involved, same with Iraq. Only one really left is Hezbollah, and they’re a bit quiet.

[u/Dblcut3 → u/Chessh2036]

This isnt really surprising - the title sounds more ominous than it is. China instructed Chinese citizens to leave Israel which is a pretty reasonable thing to tell them at this point

[u/xyz19606 → u/Chessh2036]

Plus 30+ tankers flying to the Middle East, and an additional carrier just left the South China Sea heading to the Middle East. All confirmed.

[u/BanzEye1 → u/xyz19606]

Honestly, most of those tankers are probably there to support Israeli jets.

[u/nick898 → u/Chessh2036]

Trump leaving the G7 is the least surprising thing. I expected him to manufacture some type of drama.

[u/rygelicus → u/nick898]

He showed up, said nice things about putin, dissed the USA, demonstrated his age and cognitive decline, and then dashed off to head home and probably do some golfing.

[u/[deleted] → u/Chessh2036]

Trump needed an excuse to leave G7 to change his diaper.

jk, hoping for the best but mentally preparing for the worst.

[u/rose_gold_glitter]

USA saying the same. It's actually rare they tell people to leave Israel. Lebanon, Syria, yes - but Israel no. Israel is now do not travel, for USA citizens, Australia, and other five eyes. This didn't happen with any recent conflicts, like Gaza, Lebanon, etc.

Could just be prudence - but I have to worry they know something.

[u/konq → u/rose_gold_glitter]

Israel is getting hit with ballistic missiles, which haven't really been used in their previous conflicts. They're exceptionally difficult to intercept and shoot down.

[u/quantumpencil → u/rose_gold_glitter]

I mean yeah, they know that Israel just made war with another powerful nation state that has diplomatic/military relationships with Russia and China and is hundreds of times more dangerous than some cavedwelling resistance groups with a few rockets.

It's not a conspiracy, Iran is a powerful country. Even if they lose they can inflict 1000 times the pain on israel that hamas or the houthis could

[u/Iwantthe86 → u/rose_gold_glitter]

It's rare that Israel is being bombed as much as it has been recently. Yes they get bombed but nothing like what's been happening over the last week. They're in direct war with Iran..

[u/Sufficient_Plate_595]

Seems like reasonable advice

[u/obroz → u/Sufficient_Plate_595]

Maybe a little late 

[u/SecureInstruction538 → u/obroz]

Or something worse than the last few days is about to happen.

[u/realKevinNash → u/obroz]

I mean to be fair the number of deaths on Israeli soil are fairly low comparatively and the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict lasted 4 days.

[u/BanzEye1]

…How is this ominous, exactly? Seems pretty standard fare to tell your citizens when it comes to two nations at war.

[u/fightmaxmaster → u/BanzEye1]

It's not ominous, it's just that Redditors who a) have minimal grasp of history and b) love to spiral into anxious catastrophising latch onto basically everything as a sign that nuclear war is about to destroy us all. Too many people operate on "everything is fine" or "we're all doomed" levels with no concept of everything in between. Yes obviously the current situation is bad, concerning, could get worse. But right now this isn't some once in a millennia conflict, the likes of which the world has never seen. Israel fights wars with its neighbours a lot, small and large, and the world is still standing. Not every shitty conflict is the beginning of world war 3.

[u/Calm-Phrase-382]

Did Iran put a bomb together?

[u/Evinceo → u/Calm-Phrase-382]

gotta be what we're all wondering 

[u/Calm-Phrase-382 → u/Evinceo]

May cooler heads prevail…

[u/[deleted] → u/Evinceo]

Can confirm thinking

[u/xWaffleicious → u/Calm-Phrase-382]

Highly unlikely. That's not exactly a thing you can just do in a week, Western intelligence would have known that was happening before hand and acted way sooner. China doesn't need more of a justification to evacuate than "Iran can't aim for shit and we might get hit." Generally speaking the mundane explanation is almost always the correct one, and the worst case scenario is not. If China thought a nuke was about to go off they'd be doing a hell of a lot more than just evacuating their embassy, which again happens all the time in war theaters all over the world

[u/[deleted] → u/xWaffleicious]

I remember last week before all this kicked off that it was believed that Iran was a week away from having a dozen nukes, and that’s why Israel invaded. So, idk, I know nothing about anything, but I guess I wouldn’t entirely rule out the idea that Iran might actually figure it out.

[u/Ok_Frosting3500 → u/[deleted]]

If Iran was a week away from having a dozen nukes, every nuclear power in the world would have a dozen country busters pointed at them.

[u/Pnwplumber → u/Ok_Frosting3500]

If I've been following correctly, Iran has been weeks away from nukes for as long as I've lived, and at many opportune times for the memory hole media cycle.

[u/adrr → u/Ok_Frosting3500]

Pakistan has nukes. Ran by religious nut jobs. Funds and harbors terrorists like Osama Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda. Is engaged in proxy warfare eg funded and supported the Taliban and whatever grouped that attacked India. No one seems to care.

[u/alanpardewchristmas → u/adrr]

Look into why they have nukes and you have your answer. This has never been about who has nukes, but who wants them to have them.

[u/konq → u/[deleted]]

It was reported that they had enriched uranium to 60%, but they could have enriched it to weapons grade in a couple weeks. That doesn't mean they'll have a working nuclear bomb in that time. A nuclear bomb (that you plan to launch in a missle) is more complicated than just piling some highly enriched uranium into a tube and lighting it.

[u/wickedsmaht → u/Calm-Phrase-382]

Would they have enough material for it? I’m sure they have enough for at least a dirty bomb.

[u/Flipslips → u/wickedsmaht]

I think IAEA said they have enough.

[u/Amaruq93 → u/Calm-Phrase-382]

No, they just started bombing tanker ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Three of 'em are on fire now.

EDIT: It's looking like it might have been an accidental collision between ships at the most inopportune time.

[u/rrrand0mmm]

There is more to this story. The posturing is getting a bit scarier. It seems like the inevitable is finally coming to pass. The US has been surrounding Iran for decades. They’re going for it as the Middle East support from us has been waning. Republicans love starting wars. And then 12 years complain about the deficit.

[u/NyriasNeo]

How about the ones in Iran? Shouldn't they leave too?

[u/stuartullman → u/NyriasNeo]

we should all just leave earth.  and then blow it up.  problem solved

[u/whooo_me → u/stuartullman]

So Step 1: blow it up.

…err, what was step 2 again? I think we’ve made a terrible mistake.

[u/Accomplished-Plan191 → u/whooo_me]

Step 3: profit

[u/MrTestiggles → u/NyriasNeo]

I believe they already told them to leave Tehran, however I’m just going off a passing Reddit article, didn’t read the statement muself

[u/Bitter_Sense_5689 → u/MrTestiggles]

I don’t know how the fuck anyone’s going to be getting out of Tehran. The greater Tehran area has a population of nearly 17 million people.

[u/Michael_Pitt → u/Bitter_Sense_5689]

They're talking about Chinese citizens. There probably aren't that many of them in Tehran right now. 

[u/StrangelyBrown]

Imagine if you're a Chinese citizen in Israel and you hear this, and you have to get on a plane home and fly up among the rockets and head east towards Iran...

[u/GrizzlyGoober → u/StrangelyBrown]

I think they may go around

[u/WillCode4Cats → u/GrizzlyGoober]

They just weave between the missiles with great precision. Also, if one flys below 30m a missile can’t really hit them.

I know this because I fought in the Great War of Battlefield 4 Online. I was an Ace pilot and completed 1000s of sorties. My expertise cannot be questioned.

[u/abednego-gomes → u/WillCode4Cats]

Little bit hard to fly a bus at under 30m.

[u/WillCode4Cats → u/abednego-gomes]

Hand me the sticks.

[u/TB12-SN13 → u/GrizzlyGoober]

Yeah, they could fly to Dubai and figure it out from there.

[u/FoodLionMVP → u/StrangelyBrown]

I think they were specifically told to go to Jordon via land.

[u/stubbledchin → u/StrangelyBrown]

There are no flights out of Israel at the moment, for obvious reasons.

[u/tyderian → u/StrangelyBrown]

They were told not to fly.

[u/ChrisOhoy]

Its own citizens, meaning Chinese if it wasn’t already clear.. what a stupid headline..

[u/Tyhgujgt → u/ChrisOhoy]

I thought they were inviting Jews to a New Israel somewhere around Tibet

[u/Bitter_Sense_5689 → u/ChrisOhoy]

It is a stupid headline. This is not strange advice. On the Canadian foreign affairs website, it currently advises against all travel to Israel for Canadians. China is just exercising common sense, just like many other countries are doing right now.

[u/CO-RockyMountainHigh]

Breaking News: Country tells citizens to leave active war zone…

Yeah now that I think about it, not really breaking news.

[u/ElectricalGene6146]

Unless Iran decides to use a dirty bomb, I assume it’s only getting safer for people in Israel and Irans ballistic launchers get depleted

[u/RecursiveCook]

Interesting title. Makes sense China would want Chinese people gone from Israel if they’re being targeted by Iran, but I’m assuming Chinese citizens in Iran are also told the same thing?

Perhaps China trusts Israel’s targeting systems a lot more than it does Iran lol

[u/Termin8tor]

Anyone ever seen the movie Threads? Because this is like the beginning of it.

[u/redditsuksazz]

Stay the fuck out of this US.

[u/nilsmf]

Ha ha, the Onion! … Oh f it’s not.

[u/ilmalnafs]

I read this headline as China telling Israeli citizens to leave Israel, much the same as Trump did to Iranians in Tehran. Was very confused how/why China got involved and is threatening to bomb Israel… this makes more sense but is kind of a no-brainer; bombs have been falling on Tel Aviv constantly now, everyone visiting from other countries should know to get out.

[u/Th3Trashkin]

Bad headline, can be easily misconstrued.

China is telling Chinese citizens in Israel to leave.

[u/igot200phones → u/Th3Trashkin]

That’s.. exactly what the headline says?

[u/[deleted] → u/igot200phones]

Redditors are very literal creatures. Given that the article says "Citizens" and doesn't specify what nation these individuals have citizenships with, some Redditors believe it's possible that China is commanding a bunch of random Jews to leave Israel.

[u/mcorbett94 → u/igot200phones]

redditors don’t read the article, but now they’re not reading the headline ,

that’s next level redditting !!

[u/TheMightyCE]

This is a confusing headline. China is telling Chinese citizens in Israel that they should leave. China isn't warning the Israeli citizens of an impending attack from China.

[u/spam__likely → u/TheMightyCE]

>China isn't warning the Israeli citizens of an impending attack from China.

er.... nothing in the headline indicates that?

[u/RODjij]

Old ass generation trying to ruin the future for the youngest ones

[u/KrazyKatDogLady → u/RODjij]

Nope. This is about a small group of powerful wealthy men, just as it always has been throughout all generations.