China's been siding with Iran for decades.

China's been trying to buy friends for decades. The other Gulf states are probably also a bit cheesed off that the Chinese are able to get sanctioned oil from the Iranians at a discount rather than buying it from them at full price.

Right? I thought that was a big part of your reason for thinking that this war was part of some master strategy for dealing with China, by removing a "piece" from the "board."

The world's energy markets are being remade in real time in ways that favor us. I'm not so sure why this is such a mystery or why that's beneficial to us especially as it relates to China.

No more than they're thrilled with the people who stirred up Iran into raining missiles down on their heads.

Yeah, they're not blaming us for that.

That's something that China has managed, and will continue to manage, going forward. They're very good at slow, consistent, non-chaotic diplomacy.

Non-chaotic? What you really mean to say is that China is good at exporting chaos through other states...like Iran. They've effectively been bankrolling some of the worst regimes on the planet for decades.

Just look at who they buy their oil from.

That's why Xi cannot believe his good luck.

If you say so. Venezuela, their drug cartel partner, is now not a place where they can get unlimited oil from. Iran, whom everyone in the region thought was much stronger than it is, was just dismantled in less than a month.
>80% of China's commercial shipping runs through a 2 mile strait that's now going to have the US Navy all over it.

Global energy markets are shifting to the US, and we for sure aren't selling the Chinese a drop of oil for less than market price.

And Xi's seen some of his best equipment slapped aside by the US and Israel. Yeah, everyone should be this lucky.