The
Xi-Trump Summit Runs on Oil That Isnât
Moving
Both countries are dependent on
what's trickling right now
By Imran Khalid
Foreign Policy in Focus
BC Guest Commentator
"Both
countries are dependent on what's
trickling right now through twocritical
chokepoints."
Somewhere
in the briefing papers prepared for this
weekâs meeting between Donald Trump and Xi
Jinping sits a request that quietly retires
a decade of American strategy. Washington
wants Beijing to lean on Tehran over the
Strait of Hormuz. China buys more Iranian
crude than any other country, which is
exactly why its opinion is thought to carry
weight in Tehran. So, the United States,
after 10 years of arguing that it must pull
itself free of the Chinese economy, is
asking the Chinese economy to help it reopen
a waterway that the U.S. Navy has not been
able to reopen in nearly seven months of
trying...
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