‘Don’t use pretexts, the news that we are supplying weapons to Iran are invented’
China has said the US blockade of Iranian ports is “dangerous and irresponsible” after US President Donald threatened to sink any vessel attempting to leave or dock there. “The United States has stepped up military operations and undertaken targeted blockade action, which will only exacerbate tensions and undermine the already fragile ceasefire agreement, further jeopardizing the security of cross-strait passage,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a news conference.
China also vowed to impose “countermeasures” after Trump threatened to apply new tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States if Beijing provides military assistance to Iran during the Middle East war.
“If the United States insists on using this as a pretext to impose additional tariffs on China, China will definitely take resolute countermeasures,” Guo Jiakun said at a news conference, adding that reports that China is supplying weapons to Iran “are completely fabricated.”
