President Trump announced D-Day against the backdrop of lingering conflict with Iran and revealed sanctions on 60 entities across 5 sectors, without naming a single country. These are mainly companies, ships, and people. In order to orchestrate the notion of victory in the Iran war, President Trump now desires the world to choose between the USA and Iran. China has immediately and explicitly replied that it would not comply with any of the demands. China has demonstrated this very recently when, a couple of weeks ago, Trump warned that it would destroy Switzerland’s economy if it went into any trade agreements with China. There was no retort, but China signed a deal in public with

Switzerland a week later. Iran has called these sanctions Washington’s pomposity, which no one will buy any more. However, the USA has now shifted pressure towards the economic battlefield by sanctioning major parts of Iran’s economy, from oil and shipping to........

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