{"id":51500,"date":"2006-04-28T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T09:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/28\/irans-chinese-security\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T09:58:27","slug":"irans-chinese-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/28\/irans-chinese-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Chinese Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck<\/p>\n<p>There is an &#8216;oil connection&#8217; wherever one looks these days. The Iran-uranium saga, which is keeping part of the globe on the edge of their seats, also has a clear oil connection from Tehran to Beijing &#8211; Iran is an important oil exporter to China.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Gartman reminds us in his latest newsletter that China is believed to buy in more than 10% of its total crude oil from Iran, with some estimates running up as high as 11.5% of total Chinese crude imports.<\/p>\n<p>The twist in this story is that the Chinese, being a permanent member of the Security Council, simply cannot afford to have such a large part of their imports embargoed&#8217;, or even delayed, slowed down, or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Question: what are the chances China will be prepared to use its veto if it cannot otherwise stop sanctions against Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Iran being an important source of oil for China, what exactly are the chances of a global embargo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}