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| Vice-Premier Wang, right, was the first of several senior leaders Geithner is expected to meet in Beijing [EPA] |
The US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, is visiting Beijing this week, hoping to gain China’s support for US sanctions on Iran's oil industry.
China buys almost one-third of Iran's oil exports and has rejected the US sanctions as a tool to rein in Iran's nuclear programme.
Criticising the new set of sanctions approved by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve, China has called it improper and ineffective.
