{"id":8875,"date":"2011-11-25T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T15:33:27","slug":"how-china-has-benefited-from-america%e2%80%99s-hostility-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/11\/25\/how-china-has-benefited-from-america%e2%80%99s-hostility-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"How China Has Benefited From America\u2019s Hostility to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Truthdig article <a title=\"Article on Truth Dig\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/how_china_has_benefited_from_americas_hostility_to_iran_20111123\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How China Has Benefited From America\u2019s Hostility to Iran<\/strong><\/a> quotes from the Barry Lando article\u00a0<a title=\"Barry Lando article\" href=\"http:\/\/barrylando.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/china-and-iran-lessons-from-lab-rat.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>China and Iran. Lessons from a Lab Rat<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True to form, the Americans have been pushing trade sanctions in various degrees of severity ever since American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran back in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese argue the current stiff sanctions won\u2019t convince the Iranians to stop their nuclear program. However, those sanctions have certainly helped the Chinese gain a remarkable foothold in Iran.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd as all this has been going on, the Chinese have been prospering.\u00a0 Chinese\/Iranian trade has mushroomed from $3.3 billion in 2001 to $30 billion in 2010, and is expected to hit $50 billion by 2015.\u00a0 The prize, though is the gas and petroleum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this rise in trade between Iran and China what causes Obama to assure us that the sanctions are working?<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, someone came up with the good advice, &#8220;The President ought not say things that he knows are untrue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truthdig article How China Has Benefited From America\u2019s Hostility to Iran quotes from the Barry Lando article\u00a0China and Iran. Lessons from a Lab Rat. True to form, the Americans have been pushing trade sanctions in various degrees of severity ever since American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran back in 1979. The Chinese argue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}