
Andy99
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China just ordered its domestic companies to ignore U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese refiners tied to the Iranian oil trade, including Hengli Petrochemical. -Affected firms had been hit with U.S. asset freezes and transaction bans -China's Ministry of Commerce called the U.S. measures "unlawful" and "a violation of international norms" -Beijing issued a directive prohibiting recognition or enforcement of the sanctions inside China -Comes days after U.S. Treasury warned about Chinese "teapot" refineries doing business with Iran This is China openly rejecting the U.S. financial pressure architecture in real time. For weeks, the U.S. has been tightening a financial blockade on Iran that runs parallel to the naval one, sanctioning shadow banking networks, threatening Chinese refineries, and warning shippers off Iranian tolls. Beijing just told all of those measures to take a hike, and instructed its companies to act as if the sanctions don't exist. Source: @officialrnintel
























I’m only 57 but I remember a time when you didn’t even know what political party your friends and neighbors were. We were all just Americans and we were mostly united. What happened?














