China keeps Seyyeds alive

In 2004, Iran agreed to sell a Chinese corporation $20 billion worth of natural gas per year for 25 years - representing the world's largest natural gas purchase. By 2007, China had become the largest trading partner of rogue states Iran, North Korea and Sudan, and the second-largest of Burma and Zimbabwe.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080420/focus/focus4.html

This is a quite well written article on what a monster China has become.