China’s support for Iran shows its limits as US ramps up pressure on Tehran
- China has long been a rare partner to Iran, with the economic heft to blunt the United States’ efforts to strangle the Iranian economy.
- Yet even as China opposes US President Donald Trump’s latest pressure campaign, few observers expect it to go much further than the modest economic links it has thus far forged with Iran to shield it.
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- China has long been a rare partner to Iran, with the economic heft to blunt the United States’ efforts to strangle the Iranian economy.
- Yet even as China opposes US President Donald Trump’s latest pressure campaign, few observers expect it to go much further than the modest economic links it has thus far forged with Iran to shield it.
Sources: Al Jazeera