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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
There's a weather-beaten old saying when it comes to military campaigns
that even the best laid plans rarely survive contact with the enemy.
So what about the US's much-hyped economic campaign against Iran?
If you remember, this was yesterday, Monday, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant dialling
up what had already long been touted as maximum pressure, dialling that up to unprecedented.
The single greatest financial offensive ever, he said.
The question we're going to concentrate on today is not whether
that plan is surviving first contact with the enemy, in other words, Iran.
But whether it can survive first contact with a third party, in this case, China.