“I am confident that within the Chinese system, if there are private sector actors, and we gave the Chinese the name of the company we believed may be dealing with the Iranians, that I am confident the Chinese leadership will make sure that private sector actors do not transact in those kind of weapons,” Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent told Edward Lawrence of Fox Business on July 30.
Bessent was reacting to a July 28 Reuters report that a “Chinese supplier,” acting through a Hong Kong intermediary, was planning to sell Iran up to 400 shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, commonly known as MANPADs (man-portable air-defense systems).
