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

A U.S. push for harsher sanctions against Iran won’t be welcomed in Beijing, for two reasons. First, for all the talk of China as the other half of a “G-2″ that will

That’s odd, on the face of it, because China’s interests in Iran are very different from Russia’s. Moscow is a huge energy exporter whose responses to Iran’s nuclear program are primarily based on geopolitical calculations. Under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin