In this urgent episode of The Silk and Steel Podcast, Carl Zha is joined once again by Professor Warwick Powell from Australia to dissect the astonishing developments in Trump's catastrophic Iran war.
The headlines write themselves:
Trump is now publicly begging China to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz – and threatening to cancel his visit to Beijing if they don't comply
But here's the problem: the Strait is already open for ships destined for China
Iran controls the tap, and they're letting Chinese oil tankers through while squeezing America's allies
The US is so desperate that they're stripping THAAD missile defenses from South Korea and sending 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to the Gulf
Meanwhile, China's 85% energy self-sufficiency means they can wait this out indefinitely
