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Beijing and Tehran's Coming Divorce
(Wall Street Journal Asia) Ilan Berman - For years, Beijing's steady backing has helped the Iranian regime frustrate international efforts to isolate and penalize it for its nuclear ambitions. This month, China's crude imports from Iran have fallen by some 285,000 barrels daily, more than half the total volume China regularly imports from Iran. Chinese officials, moreover, have signaled that this reduction will continue into February and possibly beyond. Policy makers in Beijing have sensed for some time that their cozy ties to the Iranian regime have the potential to become a serious geopolitical liability. The writer is vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington.