He can't touch it as the transactions will all take place in China--in Yuan. Bypass SWIFT.

And you really think the US doesn't have a way of diverting that money? As Kegsbreath said, "there are no brakes on this car", meaning the regime considers itself exempt from Congressional, or legal, constraint. For instance, Kegsbreath said "no quarter" will be given. In the conventional meaning of that term, surrendering enemy troops would be immediately executed, rather than taken prisoner, which is a war crime. The destruction of the several boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, without offering the civilian occupants an opportunity to surrender, is murder, but the regime does not care.

Money is easier to steal that tons and tons of oil, especially when the money is nothing but data in a computer. Bet the loot lands in that offshore account in Qatar.

Steve