China pumps Iran's oil harder as sanction shutdown looms

A day after Hillary Clinton declared that China appeared to be curbing its oil imports from Iran, new figures show that those imports are actually at record highs this year. Beijing imported almost 524,000 barrels per day, a 35% jump from the previous month. The rise comes even as the US has asked countries to cut oil imports from Iran and threatened to impose sanctions against financial institutions doing business with Iran's energy sector.

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[MBTGWvids]

DO you think China cares what the US wants ?

[Mega Lucifer]

USA IS GAY

[liunianyue]

No country can intervene in chinese business.

[aviomaster]

USA empire wants to control everything on this planet.

[edwardtang1977]

China: Nigga please. What would your campaign look like without Chinese made American flags? We can delay shipping .

[Sukhoi47Firkin]

beautiful girl!

[Mr MeNaCe]

wow, china is the dopeman , america the addict

[jmpmcd]

why is it the world economy does badly and the american dollar streangthens?......

[asmithproduction]

anchor couldn't get the guest to say what RT wanted, which is that China is thumbing it's nose at the US and buying Iranian oil to spite them, so she just cut to the chase "could the US sanction China!?!?" ... classic RT "journalism"

[omiblingbling]

well said!