Bessent: China’s Iran Oil Purchase a Topic of Ongoing Discussion

China’s energy purchases from Iran have been a “topic of ongoing discussion,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells CBS’s Face the Nation.

• The US has been encouraging China to stop energy purchases from Iran, a sponsor of terrorism, he says
  • China has been financing Iran with energy purchases, Bessent says
• Bessent says he doesn’t know of any plan by President Donald Trump to postpone his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping again due to the Iran conflict

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