With President Trump’s trip to China still pending, the Wall Street Journal on May 5 summed up three developments, each reported in recent days by EIR, but which, taken together, stymie Trump’s “Iran” attack on China, as China earlier stymied his and Biden’s “semiconductor” and other sanctions.
Chinese authorities blocked a merger being put through by Meta with an originally Chinese (now Singaporean) technology startup, Manus; they restored oil products exports to neighboring ASEAN countries, India, and Pakistan, helping compensate for Iranian exports; and in a big surprise, they ordered five Chinese refining companies “to ignore” U.S. sanctions attempting to deny them Iranian oil. Adding to the surprise, both the article’s author, Wei Lingling, and his primary source, are reported by the paper to lean strongly against China.
