BREAKING:
🇮🇷🇸🇦 Iran has hit the Middle East’s largest petrochemical company, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the fourth largest petrochemical manufacturer in the world after DuPont, BASF and Sinopec
They say if Iran is blocked, China will suffer tremendously.
That’s a confident statement. It’s just not a very informed one.
China is the world’s largest crude oil importer. It consumes roughly 14–15 million barrels per day, and over 70% of that is imported.
China does not structure its energy security around a single supplier. It diversifies, deliberately and methodically.
Here is the recent average import structure looks:
🤜 Russia → 18-20%,
🤜 Saudi Arabia → 15-17%
🤜 Iraq → 10-11%
🤜 UAE → 5-6%,
🤜 Kuwait → 4-5%,
🤜 Oman → 3-4%
🤜 Brazil → 6-8%
🤜 Angola → 3-5%
🤜 Iran → 6-8%, fluctuating and limited, especially under sanctions
Is Iran important? Yes.
Is it indispensable? No.
In geopolitics, that distinction matters.
Now consider China’s strategic reserves.
China’s combined strategic and commercial storage capacity approaches close to 1 billion barrels. 1 BILLION!
That provides months of buffer against supply shocks. This is risk distribution at scale.
So the real question isn’t “Will China collapse if Iran is blocked?”
The real question is why assume the world’s second-largest economy would design its energy security around a single geopolitical pressure point?
Geopolitics is about
💪 redundancy,
💪 diversification, and
💪 shock absorption.
And China has built all three.
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اسرائیلی وزیراعظم نتن یاہو نے
بہت عرصہ پہلے کہا تھا کہ
ایران کا نیوکلئیر پروگرام ختم کرنا
اور پھر پاکستان کا نیوکلئیر ختم کرنا ہمارا سب سے بڑا مشن ہے۔
ایران کے نیوکلئیر پر حملہ کر کے ان کا تقریبا تمام انفراسٹرکچر تباہ کر دیا
آپ کو کیا لگتا ہے کہ
پاکستان اگلا ٹارگٹ نہیں ہو گا؟
(اسد آر چوہدری)
فارس جہانزیب کا حکومت کی غیرت جگانے کی کوشش🚨
آپ کو شرم نہیں آتی اپنے الللے تللو کیلئے دنیا میں کچکول اٹھا کر گھومتے ہو اور ادھر بیوہ کو صرف دس سال تک پینشن ملے گا کیا آپ مین تھوڑی غیرت بچی ہے کہ بڑھاپے میں سب سے زیادہ ضرورت ادویات کی ہوتی ہے !!