Beijing likely has too much to lose in economic terms to justify anything more than stern criticism of U.S. action toward Tehran.
While China raced to condemn the Pentagon's move in Baghdad, economic relations between the U.S. and China remain fragile in their ongoing trade dispute and neither side wants to ruin recent progress.
So with a temporary truce and more than $700 billion dollars' worth of trade on the line, China isn't liable to give up its hard-fought compromise and big export market for the sake of defending Iran, wrote Clete Willems, a former Trump White House economic official and prior member of the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
"That said, I would agree that there has been some longstanding concern about China's relationship with Iran, and I'd imagine that concern would heighten," he added.
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