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- U.S. sanctions nearly 60 Iranian targets and threatens countries that keep trading with Tehran
- China rejects Trump’s threat to sanction Iran’s trading partners — this issue
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The Trump administration withheld specific measures against Beijing ahead of a planned meeting with President Xi Jinping next month.
The timing and lack of announced measures are reported, but the story only implies that the planned meeting influenced the decision.
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China receives more than 80% of Iran’s oil shipments.
A specific quantitative claim presented without an identified supporting dataset in the excerpt.