# China could determine the success of Bessent’s ‘Operation Economic Outcast’

https://mins.news/en/item/32754

- CNN, 2026-08-26 08:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/china/trump-china-iran-economic-war-intl-hnk?Date=20260826&Profile=CNN

> CNN analysis says Scott Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast” threatens damaging new sanctions against countries that refuse to stop doing business with Iran, but leaves unnamed the one country that could determine whether the effort succeeds: China.

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