{"id":82782,"date":"2026-05-07T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82782"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:15:27","slug":"china-orders-companies-to-disregard-u-s-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/china-orders-companies-to-disregard-u-s-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"China Orders Companies To Disregard U.S. Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>\u00a0has ordered companies to disregard U.S. sanctions targeting Iranian oil, forcing a direct test of Washington\u2019s ability to enforce its crackdown on Iran.\u00a0A new directive, issued through China\u2019s Commerce Ministry Sunday, invokes a 2021 &#8220;blocking statute&#8221; that prohibits firms from complying with foreign sanctions deemed illegitimate. The order applies to several Chinese refiners accused by the United States of purchasing Iranian crude, including major independent processors known as &#8220;teapot&#8221; refineries.<\/p>\n<p>The move represents a shift from years of opaque workarounds to more explicit state-backed resistance, as Beijing signals it will not cooperate with U.S. efforts to cut off a key source of revenue for Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop-desk-ad-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CIS8pMSTp5QDFRWe0QQdvk0R1Q\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"300x50\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778141727\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"China Orders Companies To Disregard U.S. Sanctions\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: China\u00a0has ordered companies to disregard U.S. sanctions targeting Iranian oil, forcing a direct test of Washington\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82783,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82782\/revisions\/82783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}