China orders firms to ignore US sanctions on Iranian oil, escalating tensions ahead of Trump-Xi meeting | Today News

> He added: “Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism … China has been buying 90 percent of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism.” When you start a Bethesda game with 5 in speechcraft.

So china is escalating tensions by enforcing its laws on its territory vs US inposing its sanctions all over the world? What's next, u used ur face to attack my fist? How dare u!

Trump will fold to Xi faster than Superman on Laundry Day.

Xi is a very bigger lover of TACO Tuesday. He knows Trump will back down the second there is an atom of political loss.

Traditionally, what made the US such a ferocious economic adversary was that while it controlled 1/3rd of total GDP, it could also call on roughly another third of total world GDP as allies, to hold the line and help the US. While going up against the US's economic might is still scary, it's way, way, way less so now that Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan and South Korea have all seen the writing on the wall. It's better to make tiea with both the US and China than to pick one or the other. And I doubt that US sanctions, traditionally matched by these other countries, will be met out by them at this time. In a little over a year, the US has halved the impact of its economic geopolitical clout.

Ambitious pragmatists versus a rotating cavalcade of nepo babies and useful idiots. Century-scale thinking versus nitwits who think that the enriched uranium to nuclear weapon development cycle takes weeks. It was nice of Charles to take Trump out for a piddle before Xi f****** dog walks him. I'm looking forward to watching the desperate spin.