Why China Isn't Willing to Get Too Tough on Iran – China News

www.time.com — Being forced to choose between an expanding energy relationship with Iran and maintaining diplomatic accord with the U.S. is precisely the kind of dilemma that makes China's leadership assume the foreign policy equivalent of the fetal position.

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