None of these answers are correct

China doesn’t have any interest, nor investment to have any geopolitical interest in the middle east like the united state does. The United States for better or worse has an ally (Israel) that has a bunch of unfriendly neighbors bordering them, and fought an 20 year anti insurgency war. China didn’t have 9/11 and China isn’t allies with Israel.

The United States (for better or worse) has had many “situations” (let’s put it that way) for the past 20 years.

This isn’t to say “china is wholesome chungus” and “America bad” and “China good”

Read and look up what China is doing with the south Chinese sea

The south Chinese sea is kinda equivalent to Americas Middle East

Geopolitics is a very, messy, complicated, thing that is (usually) pretty nuanced and not black on white contrary to what Reddit believes.

Also look at what China is doing with Africa.

Of course; it’s not the same as a 20 year long anti insurgency war like what America was involved in. But a narrative that this thread is trying to peddle that America is the only global superpower that gets involved in foreign affairs, and China just “minds its own business, sticks to itself” is misinformed at best, blatant propaganda at worst.