Ahead of Chariman Xi’s visit to Washington DC for a state visit on September 24th and 25th, Reuters is reporting that China has asked Iran to halt all strikes on Saudi Arabia oil fields.
The request from China carries a self-interest as China’s oil dependencies have become problematic since the Strait of Hormuz became a point of economic friction between Iran and U.S. military forces. The Saudi East/West pipeline was also hit by Iranian backed Houthi rebels from Yemen, creating even more energy turmoil.
Additionally, Beijing is the most exposed to the recent congressional sanctions applied toward countries that retain trade relations with Russia.
Both President Trump and Chairman Xi have a vested interest in seeing an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, with EU-NATO still provoking expanded conflict the dynamic has become one of middle-powers (Canada, U.K, EU) against significant energy powers China, USA and Saudi Arabia.
Another way to look at it is the coalition of Green Energy nations -vs- Low Cost energy nations.
The U.K, Canada and Europe have been supporting attacks against gasoline and diesel fuel refineries in Russia. This approach appears to contain a political motivation to drive up gas/diesel prices in the USA as part of an anti-Trump election strategy. The state visit by Chairman Xi comes at a critical time in the global energy dynamic.
HOUSTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Friday after China, acting on a request from Saudi Arabia, asked Iran to limit attacks by Houthi rebels on Saudi oil infrastructure that have threatened a second oil export route in the Middle East.
[…] State-run Saudi Aramco has told at least two European refining customers they will receive no crude oil next month following an attack on Saudi Arabia’s key pipeline to the Red Sea, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Three pumping stations serving the East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia were damaged in an attack last week — one more than assessed previously — with a repair timeline unclear, according to satellite imagery and three industry sources.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to restore about half the capacity of the East-West oil pipeline within days, though sources interviewed by Reuters have given varying estimates of how long it will take to reopen the pipeline and return crude flows to normal.
“The key question is whether physical flows can normalise and what the timeline could be. If we see a sustained improvement in Hormuz traffic, some of the geopolitical premium can unwind further,” said Priyanka Sachdeva, head of market insights at Phillip Nova. (read more)
Obviously, the visit by Chairman Xi will include significant discussions on the topic of energy and AI.
Tech CEOs attending President Trump’s state dinner for Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping next week now includes: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Michael Dell, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Jane Fraser and Tim Cook according to White House officials.
President Trump is expected to welcome Chairman Xi at the airport upon arrival. This is an expression of great respect by President Trump toward the relationship he carries with Xi Jinping.
Sept. 23: Trump greets Xi & his wife Peng Liyuan on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
Sept. 24: White House arrival ceremony, a military review in the Rose Garden, a bilateral meeting and a State Dinner in the East Room.
Sept. 25: Private tea at the White House followed by a tour of the National Archives to view founding documents for America’s 250th anniversary.
A tarmac welcome from a U.S. president is extremely rare. In 1959, for example, President Eisenhower greeted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Andrews Air Force Base when the Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union were high.
During the state banquet on Thursday, U.S tech leader Tim Cook will meet China’s new tech leader (from Xiaomi). U.S and China innovators will also meet, like OpenAI on the U.S side and BYD autos on the China side.
Last Thursday, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone. The discussion would be to ensure that both Trump and Xi were on the same page for meetings between U.S and China business leaders.
It has also been reported that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng are meeting this weekend in New York, likely to discuss the finance sector, and collaborative energy sector deals for Trump and Xi to announce.
LOL do you really think the Iranians are smart enough to figure this out?
Even the dumbest, or most stubborn of people, tend to ‘get it’ when a muzzle is pressed against the side of their head.
But the leaders and the IRGC are islam fanatics so they don’t necessarily “get it”! Martyrdom and 72 virgins is still in play with them! What nonsense! Only regime change will make any difference otherwise the lunatics will remain in power! JMO
as Trump has found out, ideologues don’t care if they have a gun to their head.
There sure are a helluva lot of virgins over there! How did they maintain a population LOL?
Well..maybe only half of those virgins are still virgins? The other half can still pretend.
Amusing.
Sheep can be included too…they are OK with sheep…but (famously) not pigs.
An amusing speculation:
If the heavenly goats could instantly turn into honey badgers during intimacy…
At least one of them was deflowered.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
And… I can assure you that it’s very hard to find any virgin goats in that part of the world!
I recently read that there may be a little confusion in the translation of all that 72 virgin stuff. It’s possible that the actual translation is72 raisins. Which would certainly change some stuff. Unless you really like raisins.
You must understand the context. The Shi’ite’s in charge are the Westboro Baptist version of Islam – “nobody knows what’s right but us – and we ain’t telling”! Everyone else is going to hell and we get to Heaven faster if we can bring the Mahdi back. That’s why they want a bomb – and why the other Moslem states agree they shouldn’t have one.
If I am remembering this correctly, Jeff Dunham, the comedian ventriloquist has a spot for Achmed the Terrorist on his comedy show. He was asking Achmed about the virgins and he said he didn’t know that the virgins were men. I thought it to be hilarious. I think I got it right…….
Ha! Great! We need a link.
Found it,
Not those folks, unfortunately
yes. as are the chinese.
All wars are bankers wars and China is Irans banker. So, yeah, the mullahs will get the message.
The British Crown are Iran’s handlers.
lol. Update your world view to the 21st century. Shanghai can buy the City of London 10x over.
China has substantial leverage with Iran, military and financial. More than anything else, Iran needs Chinese military inputs and intelligence to keep its battered war machine in the fight.
I try to avoid purchasing any product from chine, even at significantly greater expense. I have known, employed, and worked with Chinese descendants and respected their contributions. However, IMESHO, any nation that is intolerant of Christianity does not deserve respect nor business opportunities here.
There is a real disconnect in buying Christmas decorations especially religious ones, made in nations that that don’t allow the practice of christian religions.
Like you, I avoid products mace in China (and Vietnam and other communist countries), but I can’t always do that. Lately I don’t really want to buy from Canada or European countries either.
Russia used to not allow the practice of Christianity. And we were told by our good and pure Western leaders that this is why Russia was our enemy.
Now these same good and pure Western leaders tell us that Russia is our enemy because they’re too Christian….like those scary, backwards, redneck Bible Belt Red States.
And idiot Centrists, who don’t like either Commies or “scary” Christians, nod along, completely oblivious to the hypocritical switcharoo.
Good and valid comments, thank you. It is personally upsetting when I visited a “hobby store” that promulgates Christian values, and then an inordinately large amount of their inventorty is from chine. I wrote them and mentioned that, and they blew it off stating that ” we purchase from other countries as well”. Haven’t bought anything there since that reply.
Jackie chan, is the poster boy why you don’t buy Chinese products.
Makes his way here and denounces Americans. I sense the replies that he has no choice but I disagree 100%. Keep your mouth shut if you cannot lift up the country who gives you your paycheck. I guess china is his pimp.
North Koreans seem appreciative.
Wow….. number one!!
Okay…….do NOT let China build BYD or other or any electric vehicles in the USA!~
God bless the USA :))
I think they are already banned.
China needs energy to make windmills solar panels and lithium batteries that supply the EuroWeenies. The EuroWeenies need energy to furnish their serfs and migrants with heat and electricity not to mention their new need to industrialize their non existent war machines. The EuroWeenies would rather their citizenry suffer if it meant Trump losing the midterms. Obviously they have poor priorities or the crack in their pipes is having an effect on their ability to make rational decisions.
Rationality, reason and logic disappear like a fart in the wind when the TDS sets in.
Truer words never spoken.
There was a clip I believe on Promethean action of a euro weenie stating they will destroy it all before relinquishing power.
So, in a perfect world we wouldn’t want that but when all hell has taken over, the population demands it. Now, does that resemble hell?
Women are compelled to strangle their kids. A murder so personal as to leave a wound within so deep as to almost guarantee a separation from our maker.
Sexual perversion as dark as it can be.
Drugs and death lay in the streets.
If an angel was walking about I imagine they would be accosted for sex.
BYD..Build Your Demise. They are not coming into the US; so what’s the point of them meeting?
Just a hunch, but President Trump has been working to disentangle us from both Europe and the Middle East (by removing the last major threats to us and getting the Gulf States to step up) and move resource allocation to the Americas.
We’re currently working to restore chip manufacturing so all the eggs aren’t in the Taiwan basket.
It’s a bit realpolitik, but there may be a deal to be had regarding dividing up spheres of influence. The Americas for America and we just stay out of the rest of the world’s affairs.
If China wants our seat in NATO, they’re welcome to it. If they have the capacity to economically dominate Europe (before their self-inflicted population implosion renders them incapable of anything), well, that’s not our problem if they agree to stay out of the Americas, and is probably still better than the caliph ate route its on now.
If China wants to do business with the Islamic Middle East… Let that be their headache for the next 50 years. We have domestic and all the oil we need in the Americas.
Let all the factions of the Left fight over the Old World so long as they cede the New World to the culture of the Populist Christian West.
“If China wants our seat in NATO, they’re welcome to it.” Fascinating idea!
China is communist to its very core, while Europe is more fascist on the scale of socialist states. In case you haven’t noticed, the Islamists generally give communist states a wide berth. That’s because communism tolerates no other religions, especially one as dominant and overbearing as Islam.
So, let the Chicoms be the ultimate solution to Europe’s little Islam problem.
ansar allah attacked riyadh directly last night.
Where was Brennan?
In the ops center wearing a newly purchased dishdashah and chumming off a hookah pipe. 🫰🏼
President Trump’s ADMINISTRATION CHANGED Venezuela and it’s OIL on The Market Table for CHINA.
IRAN is LIMITED to Trucking Products to Afghanistan and Pakistan and SMUGGLING / FALSE DOCUMENTED SHIPPING
CHINA HAS LIMITED Their ” TEA POT ” Refineries in Production.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Teapot-Refineries-Cut-Operations-to-Their-Lowest-Level-Since-2017.html
CHINA NEEDS OIL to STAY the PRODUCTION LEADER
> 2025 <
China – 28.7%
United States – 15.5%
https://www.safeguardglobal.com/resources/blog/top-10-manufacturing-countries-in-the-world/
Trump is nothing if not consistent. Non Rothchild bank countries have been the enemy since he wanted to be the president in the 1980s
…and, yet, President Trump continues to fund, arm and provide satellite targeting and intelligence for Ukraine to attack Russia…
“The U.K, Canada and Europe have been supporting attacks against gasoline and diesel fuel refineries in Russia. This approach contains a political motivation to drive up gas/diesel prices in the USA as part of an anti-Trump election strategy.”
President Trump repeatedly promised to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours and here we are spending billions to support the EU and Canadian efforts to help the Democrats win. What am I missing? 🙄
You confuse the remnant Deep State actions with Trump.
Stop watching CNN. Doofus.
Silly me, I thought that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States not some imaginary apparition! Maybe, you missed that election? 🙄
“I will end the Ukraine War in 24 hours even before I enter office”
https://youtube.com/shorts/jcNzoONhrmE?is=U45kZ7f_mqWMOXR3
you’re missing all the cope to pretend like we are not the other party to the war.
I’m being a little sarcastic, Muley! 😉
The bot army is active.
Pretty much as Tucker Carlson predicted from outset.
Please elaborate.
Is that you Tucker?
Yes, Tucker has been spot on lately.
A broken clock nails it twice a day.
I wouldn’t know.
Xi isn’t going to be around much longer:
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/he-is-not-well-rumours-swirl-around-xi-jinping-clip-as-his-health-relations-with-india-questioned/news-story/c20a8d98b7ed85400c02f95fc22e9b33
1-this is about on par with the “rumors” of putin dying off a dozen times.
2-as with the putin canards, the real issue is who will come afterward. i very much doubt it will be someone who just wants to bow down at the altar of the west and do as they are ordered by a flailing empire.
Putin is quite moderate, by Russian standards.
His successor is not likely to anywhere near as approachable and certainly will not be kneeling before the EU.
The leading candidate to replace Putin refers to Ukraine as country 404 and has called for nuclear strikes ! Putin is not only moderate but also very measured , consistent, and risk adverse.
“China has asked Iran to halt all strikes on Saudi Arabia oil fields.”
“The request from China carries a self-interest as China’s oil dependencies have become problematic”
“a political motivation to drive up gas/diesel prices in the USA as part of an anti-Trump election strategy.”
I am sensing the strong possibility of another “WIN” manifesting itself shortly in the “VSGPDJT” column.
How about you?
Good to know.. Thanks Sundance.. I still think the unannounced refinery closure has a lot to do with diesel prices.. All part of a plan to derail the direction we need to go for sovereignty..
Off topic… went to guns show today.. We (US citizens) are arming a standing army on our shores.. Totally out numbered by immigrant, or issue of, by 8 to 1 all male under the age of 23.. with the 1 being boomers 65 or more.. also noted they all had the same hair cut and buying large capacity magazines to go with..
good
If someone in the Trump Admin has oppty to go on national Media, THIS attempt by the Commonwealth/EU scag needs to be identified.
Canada (Carney) and the EU are attempting to interfere with the US elections. Anything they can do to continue the Hormuz crisis and the Ukraine War is their strategy.
Name it. Condemn it. Condemn the News Media for not reporting it !
RANT over.
Well, Trump boasted on the campaign trail that he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. It’s a dirty war being run by the United States out of Langley with Trump’s approval. I wonder if Radcliffe’s recent visit was to deliver an ultimatum to Putin. Surrender to Ukraine or the dirty war continues. Then we get W & K visiting Moscow dangling “business deals”. Let’s stop pretending that Trump wants to end the war with Ukraine when all of his actions point to Russian capitulation.
Refining capacity in Russia and the ME have been destroyed as a consequence of Trump’s foreign policy. US refiners have been running at 98% utilization since the war started and they can’t meet the global demand. That’s why prices are escalating in this country. Diesel with a 6 handle is a historical first. He also said it’s a “small” price to pay. Easy for him to say.
I’ll not be surprised if Trump gets an ass whopping the first Tuesday in November.
assuming that china even WANTS to help the american empire stop digging its grave (a big IF), perhaps they just hadn’t had the conversation, yet, when this latest salvo launched….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthi-ballistic-missiles-strike-near-riyadh-airport-first-war
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. You better look this particular gift horse in the mouth. Because if ya thunk the Chinese are looking out for American interests in the middle east, then you are out of your freakin’ mind. Their help is more likely designed to get America to dig itself deeper into the s’hole that it ill advisedly created for itself.
It is time to declare victory and get the hell out of there. The ultimate losses will be staggering for America but the damage that has been done is already irreversible even if nukes are deployed.
As it is it may well be that the Chinese have already used their strategic oil reserves to keep the world’s oil supply constant so that America would keep digging itself deeper into the doo doo… Is it dither and wither or is it time for some hard decisions to be made.
Oh by the way the Chinese had around a billion barrels of oil in their strategic oil reserve at the start of the war. They aren’t the supplicant here.
“The U.K, Canada and Europe have been supporting attacks against gasoline and diesel fuel refineries in Russia. This approach appears to contain a political motivation to drive up gas/diesel prices in the USA as part of an >anti-Trump election strategy.” From this article here at TheConservativeTreehouse.
Poor people are easier to control. … TheConservativeTreehouse has been posting the videos from the Promethean Action site.
“Our failing oligarchs say we are too many and are culling the population through famines, wars, and disease. They demand energy sources dating from the Dark Ages and the rationing of food and medicine to accomplish their goal. You will own nothing, they proclaim, and be happy. Living as rent slaves to them, they tell us, is necessary to “save the planet.” [Promethean Action Statement in part]
Politically tone deaf or deliberate? Would have been nice to announce this yesterday morning when the stock, bond and oil market was open and trading not Saturday morning…🙄
“CENTCOM forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf. That’s one billion barrels of crude oil out through the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple months.”
CENTCOM Commander’s Update on the Strait of Hormuz, Praises American Troops (Video) * The Gateway Pundit * by Margaret Flavin.
https://share.google/l8v0W6lnZelaY5EgK
Venezuela is the chip on the table. If the production can be brought online quickly would that be huge. Venezuela supplies China with crude oil. Venezuela can back stop the us supply of crude. Russia supples with Europe crude and gas products.
The Middle East problem countries become less important.
Iran would become unnecessary in the crude markets.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 UPDATE: Saudi Arabia has reportedly been ATTACKED by Iran-backed Houthis near Riyadh airport, BLACK SMOKE spotted
Trump said the Houthis “DON’T WANT TO FIGHT” with the US and that he’s in active discussions to stop the fighting
Cont….
https://nitter.click/EricLDaugh/status/2101397849565016529#m
Uh stop supplying them with the parts to build these weapons.
This is not too hard.
Are you speaking of China, which controls supply of strategic materials needed to build US weapons systems?
Look up tungsten, for example. This is not just strategic control over weapons but overall industry.
Not just control over the US, but control over everyone, including Russia and Iran.
As the US depletes and degrades its weapons far faster than they can be restored, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases and supporting nations’ infrastructure reveal that the US is pulling back, increasingly unable to defend them.
China now showing that they, not the US, are in the drivers’ seat.
Where is all this being driven? Hint: 100 Year Plan.
“The U.K, Canada and Europe have been supporting attacks against gasoline and diesel fuel refineries in Russia. ” Left out the United States in this list of countries. Trump is not interested in ending the war in Ukraine. He’s looking to ratchet up leverage on Russia. Greenland needs a security guarantee? Who’s threatening Greenland?
The Russians know what this means. Forward deployed nuclear capable missiles aimed at Russia. Confiscation of their merchant vessels on the high seas. In other words, Trump is emulating the Brits of 1812.
Trump has threatened Putin numerous times since Sundance wrote his article referencing “The Hunt for Red October”. I’m pretty sure the Russians have come to the conclusion Trump is not the Boss.
Mahyar Tousi: “Don’t take Trump literally; take him seriously.”
Watch what Pres. Trump does; what Pres. Trump says is, occassionally, to misdirect attention or entertain (eg, troll).
It is clear to me that Pres. Trump wants good relations & good business with Russia — but he is opposed by murderous Deep State factions & criminal capitalists — he has to navigate this with an incompetent/criminal Secret Service.
Remember: Small factions in the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Secret Service, Dallas Police, etc., coordinated to execute JFK (35th POTUS) with imported assassins — Oswald was a patsy; he pulled no trigger; he killed no one, not even Officer Tippit.
Amazing: UK, EU, Canada vs US, China, Russia.
Where will Australia & New Zealand go?
Will Alberta stay or go?
Great!