China under pressure

US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton upped the pressure on China to recognise the threat from Iran’s nuclear programme and join calls for sanctions.

Washington and other powers will turn up the heat on China as they “move away from the engagement track, which has not produced the results that some had hoped for, and move towards the pressure and sanctions track,” she said.

“China will be under a lot of pressure to recognise the destabilising impact that a nuclear-armed Iran would have in the Gulf from which they receive a significant percentage of their oil supplies.”