Something MASSIVE Suddenly Appeared to UNLOCK Hormuz… U.S. & China BIG Surprise for Iran
A very important summit is ongoing right now in Beijing between the United States and the CCP. Countries around the world are paying attention to what is being discussed and what information is being made public. But there is one country that’s more worried about that summit than anyone and that is Iran.
You see, without Chinese help, there would be no Iranian economy. China buys the most amount of oil, roughly 90% of Iranian oil, keeping the dying economy afloat. And during a war when their economy is crashing faster than ever, Iran cannot afford to lose China. That’s why I’m sure they were shocked when they saw this statement come out just this morning. Take a look.
President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed that the strait of Hormuz should remain a free waterway and the Iranians should not be able to exact payments via a toll for use of the shipping lane. This is according to a White House readout that was made public after the meeting between the two leaders. Beijing expressed an interest in increasing its purchases of US oil to reduce China’s dependency on oil traveling through the waterway, more specifically the strait of Hormuz.
Now, it’s important to point out that China is by far the biggest buyer of Iranian oil. And that’s something we talk about a lot. They buy roughly 90% of all the oil that’s coming out of Iran. But you see, this Iranian oil only makes up around 11 to 13% of total Chinese oil imports. Way more of their oil actually comes from other Gulf countries.
Countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE. Roughly 40 to 45% of Chinese oil comes through the strait of Hormuz, most of them coming from other Gulf countries that Iran is attacking right now. And on top of that, since Iran has shut down the strait of Hormuz, China is not able to get its oil like usual like it used to from the strait of Hormuz.
So, China actually has an economic interest in the strait of Hormuz being open again and it not being under Iranian control or some kind of Iranian toll service that they run on every ship and tanker going in and out of the strait. So, it makes sense that China agrees with the United States on this point.
This is something Secretary of State Marco Rubio himself also confirmed. Take a listen.
“He did and and and and it was important because the the Chinese side said they are not in favor of militarizing the Straits of Hormuz and they’re not in favor of a tolling system. And uh that’s our position.”
Now there’s another funny story here and it relates to Marco Rubio himself.
You see Rubio has been sanctioned by China two different times. First time in 2020 for calling out CCP’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and second time later on for calling out CCP’s human right violations and of course their crackdown in Hong Kong. Because of these sanctions, he was actually banned from visiting China.
But right now, he’s actually in China with the US delegation attending this high-level summit. So how is that possible? Because the sanctions have not been lifted even to this day. The trick that China pulled was they start spelling his name differently. There are two different ways you can spell Marco in Chinese characters. Both of them sound the same if you say it out loud, but the spelling is different.
So the sanction, the Marco spelling that they used first. And now he’s visiting China. They’re using a different spelling basically claiming that sanctions don’t apply to him since his name is now different. Just a little unique laughable fact I wanted to share. But now let’s get back to the topic at hand. President Trump also shared that he talked with Chinese President Xi about Iran and Xi Jinping would also prefer that there would be some kind of deal with Iran where Iran doesn’t get nuclear weapons. Take a listen.
“President Xi would like to see a deal made. He would he would like to see a deal made and oh he did offer he said if I can be of any help at all I would like to be of help because he did say that.”
“Yeah, he did say that. And look, anybody that buys that much oil is obviously got some kind of a relationship with him. But he said, ‘I would love to be a help. If I could be of any help whatsoever, he’d like to see the Hormuz strait open.’ He said, ‘If I could be of any help whatsoever, I would like to help.'”
Now, I’m guessing in return for this, China did have some demands relating to Taiwan.
But before we get to that, let me show you some other stuff that happened at the summit so far. We already have had two fights break out in Beijing between press members and Chinese security. Here’s the clip of one of them.
“What are we waiting on?”
“We are not separate. Sorry. Do do you understand that we are in the motorcade so that the main concern now is that the security of our side do not allow you—”
“Sir, leave! They are literally waiting!”
“We got to move!”
“We got to go guys!”
“Okay no we got to go we got to go we got to go!”
“Let’s go!”
“We’re going! That is our—”
“We got to go, guys.”
“Let’s go. He’s right.”
“We have to go. We got to go. We have to go. We are going.”
“We are going. Go. Go.”
“We are going.”
“Rachel, make sure you’re in this.”
“Go.”
These were foreign reporters who were not allowed to follow and film Xi Jinping and Trump as they toured the Temple of Heaven.
This is a very historic temple in China. I think it’s from the 15th century. So maybe that’s why there was all this commotion. Instead, they were all kept waiting together in one room. A Chinese staff member explained to the reporters that they could only leave after the chairman had left. Before the chairman departed, our security personnel would not permit you to leave.
Now, this is not something that’s unusual. It happens a lot, especially during high-level delegation meetings because security teams from both sides are very tight in making sure nothing goes wrong. And that’s why there are usually miscommunications happening with, you know, reporters or anyone else who’s trying to cover the event or get really close to the meetings to just get information as to what is happening.
Now, unfortunately, the clip we just saw did happen live, so it was on a live stream, so people were able to see exactly what was happening. And of course, that doesn’t look good. Now, we also had a second incident that happened during the meeting itself, and that was also on camera, so you can take a listen right now.
“No. No. Get the [expletive] out of here.”
“Please put on the earpiece for the simultaneous interpretation. Thank you.”
Now, let’s talk about Taiwan because from the CCP’s point of view, that’s the most important question or I guess the most important topic that they want to discuss. Now, let’s talk about Taiwan. According to Chinese state media, Xi Jinping did bring up the Taiwan question with President Trump with the United States during a closed-door meeting.
Now, we don’t exactly know what was discussed in these meetings. All the information we are getting is from the Chinese media which I’m guessing has a source who was in the meeting or someone feeding them information. But it’s important to keep that in mind because the information that we will get will likely be biased in one way or another.
Whatever information that the Chinese government wants to get out to the public, that’s the information they’re going to give to the Chinese state media. That’s the information we are learning about. So that’s something that we have to keep in mind because this is not like a transcript of the meeting being made public or something like that.
Very specific information is coming out, so we have to take it with a grain of salt. But according to this report, Chinese leader Xi Jinping raised the Taiwan issue on Thursday during his meeting with Trump. Xi described Taiwan as the most important issue in US-China relations, warning that how it is handled will determine whether bilateral ties remain stable or slide into confrontation.
If managed properly, he said the US-China relationship can remain on a steady track. If mishandled, it could lead to clashes or even conflict, pushing ties into dangerous territory. Xi Jinping also stressed in the meeting that Taiwanese independence is fundamentally incompatible with peace across the Taiwan Strait, describing stability in the region as in the common interest of both Beijing and Washington.
The report from the Chinese state media did not say how Trump and the United States responded to this statement. It only mentions what Xi Jinping himself said from the US side. There have been no public comments, official comments relating to the Taiwan issue as to what was discussed, what the US committed to, what the US said was off the table, meaning we have no information.
Now, there were a couple of interesting points. First one being when President Trump was standing outside the temple with Chinese President Xi Jinping and reporters just started shouting questions. He answered a couple of questions that reporters were shouting, but he completely ignored any questions relating to Taiwan.
Just take a look at this clip. It’s very short.
“How are your talks, sir?”
“It’s great. Great place. Incredible. China is beautiful.”
“Can you talk about Taiwan, Mr. President? Thank you.”
“Thank you. Thank you very much.”
“Mr. President, did you talk about Taiwan?”
“Thank you. Thank you.”
“Okay.”
Then we also had another comment relating to Taiwan from State Secretary Marco Rubio. He was talking to NBC during an interview where he talked about Taiwan. He didn’t really give us any updates as to what happened in the meetings relating to Taiwan but he did say that US position is unchanged and he also shared how US sees China’s stance on this issue. So take a listen to the other topics.
“We know where they stand and I think they know where we stand.”
“Do you think China wants to invade Taiwan?”
“Well, I think China’s preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly voluntarily join them in in a perfect world. What they would want is some vote or a referendum in Taiwan that agrees to fold in. I think that’s what they would prefer. Um, ultimately it’s featured prominently in President Xi’s uh, mandate in the time he’s been in office. He’s made clear that what they call reunification, that’s what they call it, is something that has to happen at some point. We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature. It would—there would be repercussions for that globally, not just from the United States. And we kind of leave it there. That sort of ambiguity is what I think uh, has defined our character—the way we’ve characterized this issue and the reason being strategic ambiguity. We don’t want to see conflict. We don’t want to see something disruptive happen because I think it would be very disruptive for the world and for both countries.”
Now, in all honesty, it wasn’t that much new information coming out relating to the US stance. If it’s changing when relating to Taiwan, it would be very disappointing if we did change. But the good news is at least based on all the information we have right now, it doesn’t seem like US is giving up on Taiwan anytime soon.
In fact, under the Trump administration in this term, US has sold more weapons to Taiwan than ever before under any administration, including Trump one. So that’s definitely good news. But nonetheless, much like Iran, Taiwan is also paying close attention to what’s happening in Beijing because to them it does mean a lot.
Any new information, any change in posture could have massive impact on how Taiwan prepares for the future. Now, another interesting information Rubio shared during this trip was his read on President Xi and China. What are the long-term plans China has and how US is going to navigate around it? Take a listen.
“What is your read on President Xi? I mean, you read that their economy is struggling. You read that um he’s isolated. You read both Putin and and President Xi have a c have a pretty high degree of paranoia. What is your read as you look at President Xi from a distance going into the meeting?”
“Yeah, I think my read has been what I think has been for a while and that is China has a plan. I mean, they clearly view themselves they they believe they will be the world’s most powerful country. They’ll surpass the United States and they have a plan to do it and they’re executing on that plan and I don’t blame them. If I were the Chinese government, I I’d have the same plan. We on the other hand don’t view it that way and we don’t want to see anything that—we’re not trying to constrain China but their rise cannot come at our expense. Their rise cannot come at our fall. So there’s an area where we’re just going to have a difference of opinion. But my view of them and of the government in China is they’re they’re very confident. They have a plan and they’re trying to execute on that plan which is fine. I understand that from a nation state perspective. But when that plan is in conflict with the national interest of the United States, we need to do what’s right for the United States. And that’ll come up on this trip. But more importantly, that’ll be a feature of this relationship for a long time.”
Very diplomatic language, which in a way makes sense. You’re going to China for this big summit. Of course, you don’t want to make a statement that escalates things or causes more tensions. What’s interesting here is also the statements coming out of China. They are pretty much the same thing. Chinese officials are saying the same thing. Basically saying, hey, we are competing with the United States, but we are not enemies.
US and China are not enemies. Take a listen. This is a statement from a top Chinese military official.
“Do you think that the tension is rising or subsiding between the US and China?”
“That’s a good fundamental question. I believe among all these kind of allegations, arguing whatsoever, 21st century actually is easier for us to live in than during the uh 20 20th century because that was characterized by a kind of ideological rivalry. Yeah. In 21st century, we are competing even your term, we’re competing within the same international system. Yeah. We are not your enemy and we are best described by you as competitor. So competitors could live within the same system and I believe because the world is facing so many changes not only climate change but also like as a—agentic AI right so it is really in our own interest for our two countries to take the lead I don’t mean G2 but for us to take the lead yeah to make this world liveable at least.”
Now, of course, this summit is important in many different ways, and there’s one more day still left, so we’ll keep you guys updated. But as of right now, the most important thing to keep an eye on is this UN resolution that the United States and Bahrain are co-sponsoring that calls on an international support to open up the strait of Hormuz.
So far, 112 countries have co-sponsored this resolution. It’s expected to come to vote hopefully at the end of this week, maybe next week. We don’t exactly know but UN is a body of 193 countries and 112 countries already agree with this resolution to reopen the strait of Hormuz in any way possible. Two countries that are important to keep an eye on are of course Russia and China.
In my opinion, Russia is probably going to veto it or vote no against this. The best case is Russia maybe abstains, but even that is unlikely. We still have to see how China reacts to this resolution. Statements coming out of China saying they want the strait of Hormuz open—of course, they’re not nothing, but they mean very little.
But China using its vote to support this resolution at the UN when it goes to vote—that means a lot more than anything China can say. And it also sends a message to Iran that they need to negotiate peace because their terrorism is getting a lot of countries pissed off at their government. And this is something Marco Rubio himself publicly said just yesterday saying that if China really wants to condemn what Iran is doing in the strait of Hormuz, well, they’ll have a chance of doing that when this resolution goes to the voting floor in UN and China can use that chance to vote for this resolution. Take a listen.
“We we’ve made the argument that the Chinese and I hope it’s compelling and they’ll have a chance to do something about it at the United Nations later this week when there’s a resolution just condemning Iran and what they’re doing with the Straits. Look, there’s three things. The Chinese have ships stuck in the Persian Gulf. Uh because setting up a system that says we’re going to let certain ships through, but others not. It’s easier said than done. And you saw a Chinese, not Chinese flag vessel, but it was a Chinese cargo hit over the weekend. I’m sure Iran didn’t do it deliberately, but they did it. It happened. And so that’s why these Chinese ships are stuck in there.”
Now, to understand why Iran is behaving the way it’s behaving right now, we have to go back and look at how Iran got to where it is today. That doesn’t just mean going back to 1979 when the Islamic Revolution took place. In fact, we have to go further back to when the Qajar dynasty was ruling Iran in the 19th century and look at how the decisions the ruling class made back then still affects Iran to this very day.
Well, guess what? That’s exactly what we’re doing in our multi-part podcast that just came out today. So, if you’re someone who’s interested in the history of Iran and how we got to where we are today, definitely go check it out. You can watch it by clicking the links in the description or you can just watch it by clicking the end screen on your screen. Basically clicking the video that’s on your screen.
