"And this past week, Smith and his team made a surprising discovery: that #Iran has exported, daily, 100,000 more barrels of #oil than it did before the war, most of it going to #China. Smith says nine Iranian oil tankers have traveled through the #StraitofHormuz by turning off transponders that reveal locations."

The unprecedented Strait of Hormuz closure amid the Iran war has spiked the price of oil and gas. It's also left thousands of crew members stranded on ships as the war rages on.
🇨🇳🇹🇼#China ofrece "reunificación pacífica" a #Taiwán por seguridad energética
China ha ofrecido a Taiwán "seguridad energética y de recursos estable y confiable" bajo el gobierno de Beijing, según informes de Reuters.
Un portavoz de la Oficina de Asuntos de Taiwán de China declaró que la "reunificación pacífica" proporcionaría a Taiwán un respaldo más fuerte de la "madre patria" para proteger sus necesidades energéticas, presentándolo como un beneficio en medio de la lucha mundial por alternativas. Taiwán ha rechazado durante mucho tiempo las demandas de reunificación de Beijing.
Ukraine Update from Dylan Combellick.
Expert and in-depth, as always. Please share the friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-march-17-e1e406cae9c0?sk=e44c786a492fc324ba6521ae1bbd65d4
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China's looking better than the capitalist US all the time:
"Chen pays just 1200 RMB, or $168, a month for her apartment in faux Venice in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. It’s so cheap that it's allowed Chen to retire at the tender age of 28."