The United States has already aimed its guns at China, so what is the reason for the United States to sanction the mainland this time?
The day after Israel was attacked by Iran, the United States dragged the mainland into the attack on Iran and further expanded its sanctions against the mainland. On the day of the 15th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a series of Iran-related bills with 383 votes in favor and 11 votes against, due to Iran's attack on Israel in the early morning of the 14th. Currently, the bill will be transferred to the US Senate. The reason why the bill passed by the US House of Representatives this time involves the mainland is only because the mainland has purchased Iranian oil, so it will aim its guns at the mainland and impose sanctions on the mainland. It is understood that the bill, introduced by New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler, expands the scope of secondary sanctions against Iran to cover all transactions between Chinese financial institutions and Iranian banks for the purchase of oil and petroleum products. In addition, the bill requires the United States to determine annually whether a Chinese financial institution has engaged in "sanctionable conduct." The bill argues that any transaction by a Chinese financial institution to buy oil from Iran is a "material financial transaction" and therefore applies to sanctions. I have to admit that in order to contain China's development, the US government is really doing everything possible in terms of sanctions.
In fact, under the pretext of Iran's attack on Israel, the United States turned its head to impose sanctions on the mainland first, which just shows a problem, that is, the current United States has no way to deal with Iran, and it can no longer defeat Iran on the surface, which can actually be reflected in two aspects: First, in the Red Sea, the United States has no good solution to the Yemeni Houthis supported by Iran, and it can be said that the US troops on the Red Sea are being led by the nose by the Houthis, and the US military can only be tired of coping, and the effect is not very good. And like the Houthis in the Middle East armed forces, the "financiers" behind them have Iran's figure, the current United States is only providing weapons and equipment to Israel, and has not ended, the Houthis have exhausted the US military to deal with, if the United States and Iran clash head-on, these armed forces behind Iran will definitely make the US military in the Middle East overwhelmed, Second, the United States does not want to have a head-on conflict with Iran, although Israel intends to carry out air strikes on the Iranian Embassy in Syria in an attempt to draw the United States down, but the Biden administration's support for Israel is only in words, and does not mean to end up in the slightest, to put it bluntly, the United States just does not want to be mired in the quagmire of war in the Middle East again. Therefore, whether it is in the shadows or head-on, the United States has no effective way to deal with the conflict with Iran.
Since there is no way to deal with Iran, but to make a fuss about Iran's attack on Israel, US politicians are very good at it, and they can also involve the mainland and take the opportunity to sanction China, which is a way for the US government to suppress China. After all, the Biden administration is vigorously promoting the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy", and the U.S. government has long targeted the Asia-Pacific region, suppressing and containing China's development, which is a major goal of the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy". As a result, the above-mentioned bill of the US House of Representatives appeared. I don't know if you think that the above-mentioned operation of the United States is very familiar? Because the United States has long used this method on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the most obvious example is to use the Russia-Ukraine conflict to hype up the so-called "China's aid to Russia" topic, and then impose sanctions on enterprises that carry out normal trade cooperation between China and Russia. Only this time in the name of sanctioning Iran, and then sanctioning China.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has long responded to the US's unreasonable suppression and sanctioning of Chinese companies and groundless accusations of normal cooperation between China and Iran, saying that China has always firmly opposed the US's imposition of illegal and unreasonable unilateral sanctions and the so-called "long-arm jurisdiction", and that normal cooperation between China and Iran within the framework of international law is reasonable and legal, does not harm the interests of third parties, and should be respected and protected.