China Signals Resistance to Iran Sanctions

(Bloomberg) Bill Varner - China signaled resistance to any U.S. and European push for tougher UN sanctions on Iran. "We ask for more time to be given and efforts to be made to see if we can reach some sort of breakthrough," La Yifan, China's envoy for the Security Council and political affairs at the UN, said Monday. "Clearly, China will be the hardest sell," said Cliff Kupchan, a senior analyst at Eurasia Group, a New York political-risk consulting firm.


2009-12-22 07:49:05

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