All, Here’s ISW’s latest on the PRC/Taiwan and Iran https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/china-taiwan-update-april... As you read this, note that the PRC: * Iran’s largest customer * Buys ~80% of its oil from Iran at below market * Will feel economic pain if it has to buy oil at market prices * Was heavily involved with shadow tankers * Has limited crude oil stocks on hand within the PRC * Recently shipped three boatloads of solid rocket fuel precursors to Iran on Iranian flagged ships which were not, for reasons only known to the pentagon, intercepted This is speculation, but I suspect Xi had a hand in this. The PRC is the largest weapons supplier to Pakistan, is Iran’s best supplier of weapons and has a relationship with the U.S. Xi can call Trump and he will take the call. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --