China and Iran...what a relationship

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/27/iran.nuclear.reut/index.html

This article talks about the fact that China is telling the world
leaders (U.S. and E.U.) to slow their role in dealing with Iran. I
guess that they can keep threating U.S. and other the UN because they
know that China got their back. And Iran is not stupid enough to blow up
stuff in China yet. I often wonder why is China and Iran so close.
Logically those conservative Muslims in Iran should be fighting with
China too because China is not the greatest place for religious
freedoms. But then again, money does talk. And China has a lot of it.
What would be interesting if Iran got their nuclear bomb and then bombed
China to show the world that they were not playing around. Then the U.S.
could just sit back and watch the melee that ensues.