China buys up Saudi, Russian oil to squeeze Iran

[agentny17]

China's relations with Saudi Arabia is ten folds more close to Chinese relations with Iran. I mean here look at this: Jazan is the only city in the middle east which has Chinese as an official language instead of English:

Why would you guys help the West against Iran ? No matter how many problems you have with Iran, they are closer to us than the West, and Israel. Nuclear Iran is only bad for Israel, not Saudi Arabia, Egypt, ect..

 

[HongWu]

China's relations with Saudi Arabia is ten folds more close to Chinese relations with Iran. I mean here look at this: Jazan is the only city in the middle east which has Chinese as an official language instead of English:

I don't buy that at all. KSA is in bed with our archenemy USA. If you really want to be friends of China, you would need to support a multi-polar world order where China and Russia are superpowers in their own right and Iran is a natural regional power.

 

[Harry_Thomason]

Its normal business, China has more leverage to ask for a discount, and once price is negotiated, China will buy all its quota if not more.