{"id":81981,"date":"2026-08-24T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81981\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:00:10","slug":"the-big-question-is-over-china-as-us-threatens-secondary-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81981\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The big question is over China&#8217; as US threatens secondary sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;The big question is over China&#039; as US threatens secondary sanctions\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bw80X1FrfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;The big question is over China&#8217; as US threatens secondary sanctions<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set to announce the \u2018greatest financial offensive ever\u2019 against Iran, Roland sits down with the Telegraph\u2019s chief foreign affairs commentator David Blair to discuss where the Iranian regime goes next and who might blink first.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Trump administration\u2019s blockade of Iranian ports has seen oil exports dwindle to near zero, with David adding that it may only be a matter of time before the regime goes bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The pair also discuss the Iranian cyber attack that shut down a UK power plant for several days and the scheduled meeting between Israel and Syria following a strike on a Syrian airbase last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The big question is over China&#8217; as US threatens secondary sanctions With the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[760,14,13084,38,26,19,11681,13170,27,337],"class_list":["post-81981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-exports","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-oil","tag-sanctions","tag-scott-bessent","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-the-telegraph"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117152329424875142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}