The U.S. is hoping to avoid imposing secondary sanctions on China over its purchases of Iranian oil, former U.S. national security official Mark Pfeifle said.

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The U.S. is hoping to avoid imposing secondary sanctions on China over its purchases of Iranian oil, former U.S. national security official Mark Pfeifle said. He said Washington is keeping sanctions as a last-resort option because broad measures against Beijing would be diplomatically hard given how intertwined the two economies are. Source: Al Jazeera