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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monson" data-source="post: 31265832" data-attributes="member: 30005"><h2>China stands to become the big loser in Trump’s attack on Iran</h2>Analysis by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/john-liu" target="_blank">John Liu</a><img src="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-2263801981.jpg?c=original&q=w_1280,c_fill/f_avif" alt="Pedestrians walk next to a screen showing the commodity futures for crude oil in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on Monday.'an district of Shanghai on Monday." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Pedestrians walk next to a screen showing the commodity futures for crude oil in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on Monday. Jade Gao/AFP/Getty ImagesIn less than two months, United States President Donald Trump has taken out two of Beijing’s closest allies — threatening China’s oil supply in the process.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was seized by the US in January. Now Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead. Beyond robbing China of its strategic partners in South America and the Middle East, the two military actions have struck at something far more vital to Beijing: Oil.Both nations supply most of their crude to China — more than half of Venezuela’s crude exports and nearly all of Iran’s shipped crude likely ended up in China last year, according to data analytics firm Kpler.Together, their supplies accounted for about 15% of China’s oil imports, CNN’s calculations based on data from <a href="https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/where-china-gets-its-oil-crude-imports-in-2025-reveal-stockpiling-and-changing-fortunes-of-certain-suppliers-including-those-sanctioned/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQR48BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFKOFM2TnBhZTZxcm1TNXQ4c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvauziUTn0wyI1dZfMtDUouVpJ4iTtPGW16mRlFZHOOF6_EcMHJEmrc0VArB_aem_f87R3PP5MhRVNlohmLCOZA&" target="_blank">Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy</a> showed.</blockquote>

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