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iewgnem said:

Doesn't take insider knowledge, China's oil reserve status is openly reported by Bloomberg.

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Thecore said:

If the US sanctions Chinese banks in return, then it's the end of US dollar as the global reserve. The only point to holding dollars was to buy 1. oil from the middle east 2. manufactured goods form China. Reason number 1 is at a complete impasse at the moment. Kill reason number 2 and why even have dollars at all? For a "safe asset" harbor? Lol! What safety is there in holding paper that is worth 10% less each passing year?

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AssassinsMace said:

Every time you see Western politicians blame China, they’re covering up how they failed their own people. How can China do all this when the Western democratic system is superior?

Look how Trump has claimed he saved and made $17 trillion for the US in the one year he’s been in office. If true where did that money go while he’s cutting off stuff like health care from Americans? Why is he demanding more money from taxpayers to pay for his war with Iran. It’s going directly into the pockets of the rich including himself. Now Trump wants the US taxpayer to pay for his $400 million ballroom when he said it was being paid by private donors. He’s not even using any of that $17 trillion he supposedly saved Americans. How do you cover that up? By blaming someone else like China. Then you have how the US has conditioned Americans so much to think how much superior their system is to everyone else’s that they can’t admit any faults. Do you call that a superior system? Yeah one that knows how to steal everyone else’s money and call it legal.

The foundation of white supremacist beliefs is believing they have better lives than anyone else. That’s how they justify imposing themselves on to everyone else because they supposedly know better. Look at how they argue slavery was the best thing to ever happen to Africans. They’re covering up a crime by claiming the result was better than what they had before.

I remember reading an article about how India surpassed the US in being the second largest telecom market in the world. India has over a billion people over the US’s measly 300 million. So naturally that was going to happen but if you saw the comments, it was taken like as one of the most offensive and sensitive assaults ever that India supplanted the US on anything. And China was number one… Their white supremacist sensitivities are so delicate they can’t even let India just have more cell phone users than the US. And of course it would be different if it was some Westerner who was making all the money from it.

They can’t let India have something so innocuous as second largest telecom market, what else will make them go nuclear? That’s why they’re suffering from China derangement syndrome. China isn’t Western. They cannot allow China to seem better at anything… in the slightest. That’s why in the rarest of most circumstances Democrats and Republicans can agree on China like no other issue not because they want to believe they both are the cosmic balance that when they agree, there’s peace in the universe and no one has the right to challenge it but because it simply shows that the West is all about white supremacy and nothing else.

There’s already rumblings of taking actions against China to not make it an alternate to the West in just the health care of their own people. They just will rather let their own citizens die than have them go to China to resolve heath issues that the Western system can’t handle. Yes they hate it when non-westernized countries have anything better than they do. What truly makes them barbarians is when they’ll sacrifice their own people just to cover that up.

That’s why don’t mistake Western human rights advocacy as how much they care for others than themselves. No, it’s about establishing how others treat their own so they can vilify them thus they have the justification to act against for their own interests like saving white supremacy. Genocide in Gaza proves how they don’t care when it’s one of their own committing the crime. That’s my goto response now to expose Western hypocrisy. I recently had a response to that crying how could I blame Europe for what Israel is doing? I responded, “You mean like how the West wants to punish China because Russia invaded Ukraine?” The West will create this elaborate web just to blame someone to hold responsible but when it comes to their responsibilities, they suddenly become stupid at how they’re not responsible. Even in the US you hear those that don’t see any blame on them for what Israel is doing despite how it wouldn’t be happening at all if it weren’t for the US. Yeah just like how they blame China for Ukraine just for China doing nothing.

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Temstar said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2050552245373280461

Earlier Eswatini sent a delegation to Taiwan. Lei managed to catch a ride with them on their plane and sneak into Eswatini that way.
I wonder how is he going to get back when he's done. Fly commercial?

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China "Aggressively" Dumps Oil In Tenders As Iran War Reshapes Flows
By ZeroHedge - Apr 22, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
Mercuria CEO Marco Dunand says Chinese oil companies have been aggressive sellers in global crude tenders over the past two to three weeks.
Possible drivers include releases from Chinese oil inventories, continued sales of Iranian barrels, and bets the Strait of Hormuz reopens sooner than expected.
Dunand gives the selling roughly three more weeks before China has to rethink its position, a window that tracks with the Iran war endgame.
oil tanks at a refinery at on a summer day
We knew there was a reason why China had accumulated a cool 1.5 billion barrels in its strategic petroleum reserve: the reason, to become the world's strategist petroleum reserve when the time arises... for a price of course.

According to the chief executive officer of commodity trader Mercuria, Chinese oil companies have been aggressive sellers in recent weeks, selling barrels to several nations in tenders.

“What has been happening in the last two or three weeks is actually they have been aggressively selling crude oil,” Mercuria CEO Marco Dunand said at the FT Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne on Tuesday. “They've taken out a lot of demand from various countries and offered aggressively in tenders.”

Dunand said there are a variety of possible explanations for the selling. They include the release of oil inventories within China, continued sales of Iranian oil in the weeks after the war started, and possible optimism that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen quicker than it has so far.

He also said that Mercuria sees Chinese gasoline demand falling by 1 million barrels a day this year as a result of electric-vehicle adoption, which also could have played a factor in the sales.

But the most important thing Dunand said, was his response to question how long this last: “How long can they do this for? I think the guess would be probably for about another three weeks and then I think at that point they would have to revise their position.”

Well, three weeks is also how long Iran has before its oil sector is permanently shut in. The good news: the end of the Iran war is - one way or another - now in sight.

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GodRektsNoobs said:

Also, if the sailors are starving to death in the Gulf,

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