Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Can China Benefit From Growing U.S.-Iran Tensions?

Sarebbe una vera beffa per gli USA se le petroliere cinesi iniziassero a 
fare la spola per Hormuz cariche di economico petrolio iraniano sotto lo 
sguardo protettivo della flotta americana...
 
E c'è anche l'altrettanto divertente possibilità che i cinesi vengano a 
rilevare a prezzo di saldo gli asset industriali di una Europa 
impoverita dalla speculazione anglo statunitense, dalla rinuncia al 
petrolio iraniano, dalla pedissequa applicazione dei dogmi liberisti.
 
Bah.
 
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Can China Benefit From Growing U.S.-Iran Tensions?
By Austin Ramzy | @austinramzy | January 16, 2012
 
Read more: 
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/01/16/can-china-benefit-from-growing-u-s-iran-tensions/#ixzz1jkU8VUz2
 
 
 
U.S. efforts to reduce global demand for Iran’s oil exports as a means 
to pressure it into curbing its nuclear ambitions could present major 
problems for China, the leading customer of Iranian crude exports. China 
reacted strongly over the weekend to U.S. sanctions on Zhuhai Zhenrong, 
a Chinese firm the U.S. calls the largest supplier of refined petroleum 
to Iran. (Although a major petroleum producer, Iran is dependent on 
gasoline imports due to limited domestic refinery capacity.) Those 
imports violated U.S. law, the U.S. State Department says, and as a 
result Zhuhai Zhenrong is “barred from receiving U.S. export licenses, 
U.S. Export Import Bank financing, and loans over $10 million from U.S. 
financial institutions.”
 
The Wall Street Journal reported that the company appears to have no 
U.S. assets, so the sanctions are “largely symbolic.” But they raised 
the ire of the Chinese government. On Saturday Chinese Foreign Ministry 
spokesman Liu Weimin called U.S. efforts to internationalize its 
sanctions against Iran by target a Chinese company were “completely 
unreasonable and don’t conform with the spirit or content of U.N. 
Security Council resolutions,” according to a statement (in Chinese) 
posted on the ministry’s website.
 
Last week U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited Beijing, 
seeking to convince China to back further sanctions against Iran. Last 
month President Obama signed legislation that would block firms that 
deal with Iran’s central bank—the key processor of oil receipts—from the 
U.S. financial system. Exceptions would be made for states that 
significantly reduce crude oil purchases from Iran. Japan, a major 
importer of oil from Iran, said it would support the U.S. measure. But 
China responded cautiously. Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said ahead 
of Geithner’s visit that China’s oil imports should be considered 
separately from the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
 
But even as China appeared to reject U.S. calls for reducing its 
purchases of Iranian oil, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao traveled to the 
Middle East, where he discussed plans to boost Chinese energy supplies. 
In Saudi Arabia, China’s largest foreign oil supplier, Wen told Crown 
Prince Nayef that both countries “must strive together to expand trade 
and cooperation, upstream and downstream, in crude oil and natural gas,” 
Reuters reported. Wen was also in the kingdom as Chinese oil company 
Sinopec completed a $8.5 billion deal with Saudi Arabian oil firm Aramco 
to build a refinery at the port of Yanbu by 2014. Wen is also visiting 
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over his six-day trip.
 
China is anxious to strengthen and diversify its oil supplies regardless 
of the growing dispute between Iran and the U.S. and Europe. But the 
nuclear issue could even give an advantage to China in its negotiations 
with Iran. Bloomberg reported last week that China’s position as a 
willing buyer of Iranian crude, even as other nations agree to reduce 
imports, could allow it to push for cheaper prices even as it benefits 
from the security of U.S. military patrols in the Strait of Hormuz. The 
growing tensions with Iran offers great risk for China, but it comes 
with opportunity as well.
 
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/01/16/can-china-benefit-from-growing-u-s-iran-tensions/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29
 
 
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 sguardo protettivo della flotta americana...
 
Beffa? E' lo scopo ultimo nel tenere Hormuz aperto, ed anche il motivo 
per il quale l'Iran non farà nulla per chiuderlo.
 
 
PP
 

 fare la spola per Hormuz cariche di economico petrolio iraniano
 
l'obiettivo e` danneggiare l'Iran: piu` il petrolio e` "economico",
meglio e`.
 
Per esempio, hanno fornito petrolio gratis all'India per tre anni
(anche se non era loro intenzione... :)).