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.
The actions of spoiled children demanding all things, all ways, all the time. Nobody else gets any candy unless they say.
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.