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As much as it would be in China's short term interest to help Trump with Iran, they are very clear eyed on the long game here.I suspect that Crazy Trump was hoping that China would put pressure on Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz in a favorable fashion to Trump, but maybe the Chinese will be content to let Crazy Trump sleep in the bed that he made for himself.
But he will return to Washington to find that the war in Iran still poses a major political headache. There is much speculation about how much pressure the US is putting on China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, to use its leverage with Iran to encourage the country to reopen the strait of Hormuz. And there is a question mark over whether or not Beijing would be willing to accede to that pressure.
Allow Trump and America to continue to spiral into chaos, see how bad things get with the coming Mid Terms and see what Trump is willing to do, to damage America in a desperate bid to keep power and how that makes Allies step even further away from Trump and America.
China will not try to stem that path and will sit and watch as Trump does to America what they had been war gaming for years but could not find as effective a vehicle for it.
