Finally, some fact based analysis instead of the drivel pumped out by propaganda organs like Zerohedge.
The US, Israel and Gulf States are well on their way to becoming gootnotes of history and maybe provinces of Iran and all because the Americans can remove the utterly evil and moronic Epstein mafia, enabled by Tucker Carlson . He got JD Vance, Hegseth, Patel appointed, who ruthless exploits his prominence as a propaganda mouthpiece in a completely purged US media ecosystem. The CIA? quisling now wants to run for prez as the opposition to the corrupt people he got into office!
Telling, it was Tucker who gave 1 million to Erika Kirk as part of a fundraiser he set up for her after Charlie Kirk was murdered. In retrospect that smacks as a part of Erika s pay off for her betrayal of Charlie.
From media
The one country facing almost no stress is China. Energy experts Kpler said China’s oil imports were running at 90pc of pre-war levels in April. It has built by far the largest strategic petroleum reserve in the world – probably 1.5 billion barrels.
China is sufficiently flush to swoop into South Asia as regional saviour, relaunching exports of diesel, jet fuel and naphtha to grateful states.
The one country facing almost no stress is China. Energy experts Kpler said China’s oil imports were running at 90pc of pre-war levels in April. It has built by far the largest strategic petroleum reserve in the world – probably 1.5 billion barrels.
China is sufficiently flush to swoop into South Asia as regional saviour, relaunching exports of diesel, jet fuel and naphtha to grateful states.
The economy is growing at a 5pc rate – or 3pc on proxy measures – and the housing market is starting to recover in Beijing and Shanghai after a deep slump. Exports are booming and the trade surplus hits new records every month.
Does one laugh or cry at claims that cutting off Chinese purchases of Venezuelan and Iranian crude will bring the country to its knees?
The actual story is that Trump’s war has greatly raised the economic and strategic value of China’s electrotech industries.
It has accelerated the global switch from fossils to solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles mostly made by China. Data from Ember show that China’s solar exports doubled to 68 gigawatts in the single month of March.
Yes, China wants peace in the Middle East and free shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but it is not in any hurry. The view in Beijing is that Trump’s war has worked marvellously to China’s advantage on almost every level, whether economic, military, diplomatic and technological – or on the scales of civilisational credibility.
All can now see the limits of America’s overstretched military. The war has exposed the Pentagon’s failure to prepare for the age of cheap drones – the flying AK-47s of asymmetric guerrilla resistance.
Beijing can see that the US has squandered precision munitions that will take years to replace and cannot be built without gallium, a rare earth monopolised by China. It can see that the war has denuded East Asian allies of Patriot missile defence batteries and that these countries are not receiving a long list of weapons shipments already paid for.
The question is how far China will go to exploit this moment and tighten its grip on Taiwan. America’s digital economy depends to an extraordinary degree on one belt of foundries near Taipei.
Eyck Freyman, a fellow at the US Naval War College, said the risk was that China could test US resolve with “grey-zone” operations and a customs blockade, forcing all ships and flights in and out of Taiwan to pass by the mainland port of Fujian.
This would give China access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s elite chips and effective access to ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines – both now denied under US sanctions. It would turn the tables on America and radically upset the global balance of technological power.
Eyck Freyman, a fellow at the US Naval War College, said the risk was that China could test US resolve with “grey-zone” operations and a customs blockade, forcing all ships and flights in and out of Taiwan to pass by the mainland port of Fujian.
This would give China access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s elite chips and effective access to ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines – both now denied under US sanctions. It would turn the tables on America and radically upset the global balance of technological power.
My view is that China will not have to flex its muscles over Taiwan because the island will fall into its hands like a ripe fruit. The Kuomintang Party, which controls Taiwan’s parliament, clearly wants to move into China’s orbit as a lesser poison than today’s rogue America under a hubristic predator.
The party leader, Cheng Li-wun, accuses Trump of trying to hollow out Taiwan’s chip industry and treating the country as an expendable pawn. She wants the Taiwanese to “learn to love being Chinese again”.
The gloomier view is that China has a unique window right now to press its advantage, before America restores its chip capability and before competent grown-ups retake control of US foreign policy in Washington.
China has never sat prettier in the modern age. It is the electrotech hegemon of the future. The West scarcely exists anymore. America and Europe are at diplomatic daggers drawn.
The American defence of East Asia has never looked less credible in the modern era.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/08/china-can-far-outlast-america-over-middle-east-conflict/
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