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Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu conferred with Omani National Security Council Secretary-General Idris Abdulrahman Al Kindi on core interests, Belt and Road alignment, and regional security. The presence of a National Security Council official signaled that Muscat now treats Beijing as a strategic partner rather than a distant trading post.
This turn occurs while American policy continues to scatter alliances across the Middle East through successive interventions and withdrawals. Small states that once relied on Washington now calculate that dependence on a single power invites hostage-taking of their independence.
Scripture and the creeds affirm that lawful authority belongs first to the household and then to the nation ordered under God. No empire holds perpetual title over the sovereign peoples Christendom once recognized as distinct realms under divine providence.
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the attempt to impose universal dominion and established the principle that nations answer for their own affairs before God. Oman’s outreach simply applies that ancient rule to present circumstances.
The Managerial Priesthood in Washington, having dissolved older bonds of trust, now watches client states seek shelter elsewhere. China offers infrastructure and governance lessons without the moral lectures that accompanied American patronage.
Yet the substitution of one external master for another cannot restore true order. Only nations that recover the patriarchal and covenantal structure of authority can resist absorption into either technocratic empire.
The faithful remnant must therefore press their own governments to abandon the politics of endless disruption and to treat every sovereign people as an equal before the law of nations.
