The US will penalize any country that violates its sanctions, albeit it will not go after China because it is fearful of what an escalation would look like. Knowing this full well China is buying 700K barrels of Iranian oil every single day, as they violate US sanctions.
Iran has been condemned to crushing oil-export restrictions for numerous years, but this has not deterred China, whose importation of Iranian oil has climbed month after month, according to traders and ship-tracking agen...