Isn’t China still sitting on $20B in frozen Iranian assets to keep nice with the US? They’re meanwhile making side deals to get below-market rates for Iranian petroleum.
Seems more like savvy opportunism on their part than a ideological basis for some Iran-China axis.
But then here comes Bret Stephens--I guess those straws won’t grasp themselves.
Isn’t China still sitting on $20B in frozen Iranian assets to keep nice with the US? They’re meanwhile making side deals to get below-market rates for Iranian petroleum.
Seems more like savvy opportunism on their part than a ideological basis for some Iran-China axis.
But then here comes Bret Stephens--I guess those straws won’t grasp themselves.
Isn’t China still sitting on $20B in frozen Iranian assets to keep nice with the US? They’re meanwhile making side deals to get below-market rates for Iranian petroleum.
Seems more like savvy opportunism on their part than a ideological basis for some Iran-China axis.
But then here comes Bret Stephens--I guess those straws won’t grasp themselves.