Last night,

The US and Iran at the negotiation table in Islamabad,
A 21-hour-long negotiation,
Ultimately ended in failure.
Vice President Vance announced,
No consensus was reached with Iran,
The US delegation is preparing to return home.
Iran also stated:
Due to "American greed and ambition,"
No agreement was reached.
Such an outcome,
Has long been anticipated.
This seemingly lengthy negotiation,
From the very beginning, revealed US strength and arrogance.
The US delegation only arrived on the 11th.
Vance slept for 4 hours after getting off the plane.
Meanwhile,
US warships and aircraft forcibly crossed the Strait of Hormuz,
Negotiating while showing muscle.
Trump also posted that the US is
"Starting to clear the Strait of Hormuz."
Iranian representatives argued strongly at the table:
They will never give up their uranium enrichment rights,
Insist on sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz,
And demand Lebanon immediately cease fire.
But the US attitude was arrogant:
There’s nothing to negotiate,
In the end, the US even left early before finishing talks.
It’s clear that,
Iranian representatives deeply understand,
Accepting US conditions means losing sovereignty,
The cost of refusal is plunging the entire country into deeper conflict.
How dire is Iran now?
A landscape scarred by war,
Iran’s largest and the highest Beik Bridge in the Middle East was bombed,
8 dead, 95 injured,
Most of them civilians.
Power plants bombed,
Widespread nationwide blackouts.
Over 105k civilian facilities attacked,
Universities and elementary schools bombed,
Over 300 students and teachers killed,
More than 7,000 women and children injured,
Over 216 minors lost their lives.
When the Iranian delegation flew to Pakistan,
There were photos of four children on the plane,
Killed by US and Israeli bombs.
They should have had childhood, classrooms, and a future,
But they became victims of war.
This ongoing, unresolved negotiation,
Barely conceals a brutal truth:
Weak countries have no diplomacy.
Why do many today empathize with Iran?
Perhaps it’s looking back at history,
We feel the same humiliation.
A hundred years ago, China, too, was like this.
At the Paris Peace Conference,
We were victorious,
But the great powers still transferred Shandong rights to Japan.
We argued strongly,
But it was hard to change decisions at the time.
Why?
Because China was too weak then.
The lesson "lagging behind invites beating"
Is deeply engraved in our national memory.
So today, seeing Iran’s plight,
We empathize deeply.
This unfinished negotiation,
May also serve as a warning to all countries:
Every chip at the negotiation table,
Is not gained by words alone,
But by national strength,
By powerful military force.
Without a strong national defense,
There is no equal voice in dialogue;
Without solid strength,
All demands are just empty talk.
Dignity is never bestowed by others,
But earned by oneself.
Only by being strong,
Can a nation stand tall in international games,
And have the confidence to say “No” at the negotiation table.