He says Trump's strategy is to cut off China's oil and food supply in order to force Beijing to the negotiating table ahead of scheduled 2026 leader meetings.
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Oil supply
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...inevitably will be dependent on. Of course. And there's a global oil supply and a global oil supply demand. And what I'm saying is..."
Key Notes
Jiang says China wants stronger relations with Saudi Arabia because China depends on Middle Eastern oil and cannot rely on a sanction-heavy environment around Iran.
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"gorilla so what's trump saying is that you're going to play when he negotiates, he's going to negotiate to the end. So what he..."
"Yeah. So the situation in Saudi Arabia, I think it's more volatile and more fragile than people really understand. I think Saudi Arabia, their..."
"...is completely dependent on China. On the Middle East for its oil supply. And right now it gets a lot of oil from Iran...."
"...inevitably will be dependent on. Of course. And there's a global oil supply and a global oil supply demand. And what I'm saying is..."
"...months, lots of accidents around the world that's destroying the world's oil supply, okay? But there's one region of the world that doesn't really..."
"...the world there are these fires going on destroying the world's oil supply so why is this happening um and who's doing this we..."
"...um are being deliberately set in order to reduce the world's oil supply and the people who can do this the people benefit from..."
"...States can't make up that 35 % and your basic global oil supply and demand, right? The quantity gets reduced all the way down..."
"...of its oil from overseas half of it half of its oil supply comes from the middle east so there's a war in iran..."
"...close off the Straits of Hermos. And so this is affecting oil supply. And so the global economy could be disrupted or even destroyed..."
"...possible so that the Americans and the British could control their oil supply in the Middle East. And this has gone on for decades,..."
"...to him and he wants to be able to control the oil supply so that when he goes to Beijing at the end of..."
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