“China is using such arrangements to push back against the U.S. and show it cannot be coerced with the threat of secondary sanctions. But China’s leaders do not want their banks or companies excluded from the international financial system. They want plausible deniability.”
Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & University of Exeter) is quoted in the article “How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran” on Reuters.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
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