Geopolitics
From Sanctions to Strikes: The US Escalation Against China's Energy Lifeline and the Unmasking of Imperial Power
Despite a decade of US financial sanctions, China's 'teapot' refineries continued to buy heavily discounted Iranian oil, a trade that is now under threat from direct US military strikes on the physical supply chain. This stark escalation reveals the ultimate hollowness of the Western-led 'rules-based order', exposing it as a system of raw imperial power that discards its own financial rules for brute force the moment a defiant nation like China refuses to submit.
