China permanently against the United States requires to stop buying oil from Russia and Iran

Chinese officials and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences You reach a commercial deal It avoids punishing definitions, but it remains far from one case: the United States is asking that China stop buying oil from Iran and Russia.

“China will always ensure its energy supplies in ways to serve our national interests,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry deployed on Wednesday after two days of commercial negotiations in Stockholm, responding to the American threat with a 100 % tariff.

“Coercion and pressure will not achieve anything. China will firmly defend its sovereign interests, security and development,” the ministry said.

The response is noticeable at a time when both Beijing and Washington refers to optimism and goodwill to reach an agreement to maintain trade relations between the world’s largest economists – after climbing from the tariff related to the sky and harsh commercial restrictions. It emphasizes China’s confidence in playing a charming ball when dealing with the Trump administration, especially when the trade has its own card and policies.

“The Chinese take their sovereignty seriously,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Besin, who came out of the talks, told reporters.

“We do not want to hinder their sovereignty, so they want to pay a 100 % tariff,” said Pesin.

On Thursday, the Chinese negotiator was called “young”, but he said that China’s reaction did not stop negotiations. “I think we have a deal,” Pesin told CNBC.

Gabriel Wildaw, Managing Director of TENEO Consulting Company, said he doubts that President Trump will actually publish a 100 % tariff. “The realization of these threats would hinder all the last progress and may kill any opportunity” to Mr. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce a commercial deal if they should meet this fall.

By seeking to restrict oil sales by Russia and Iran, a major revenue for both countries, the United States wants to reduce the funding available to their armies, as Moscow follows Her war against Ukraine and Tehran funds hard -line groups across the Middle East.

CBS news revealed that China still buys Iranian oil And evading US sanctions using what is known as the “dark fleet” to transport oil from the ship to the ship in the middle of the sea.

When Mr. Trump revealed a comprehensive plan for definitions on dozens of countries in April, China was the only country that took revenge. She refused to surrender to us.

“If the United States is determined to impose customs tariffs, then China will fight to the end, and this is the formal, consistent position of China,” said To Shinkwan, Director of the Chinese Institute for World Trade Studies at the International Business University and Economics in Beijing. The World Trade Organization is an acronym for the World Trade Organization.

Tu said that China may suspect that China may also suspect that the United States will not follow its threat, and wondering about the importance of Mr. Trump against Russia.

Scott Kennedy, the chief adviser and head of the trustee in the Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Beijing is unlikely to change its situation when it sees contradictions in the goals of US foreign policy towards Russia and Iran, while supporting Beijing’s policy for Moscow is consistent and clear. Kennedy said it is also possible that Beijing would want to use it as another negotiating tool to extract more privileges from Mr. Trump.

Danny Russell, a distinguished colleague at the Asian Association Policy Institute, said that Beijing now believes that she is “the person who carries cards in his struggle with Washington.” He said that Mr. Trump has made it clear that he wanted a “great deal” with something “, so the refusal of the United States’ request to stop buying oil from Iran or Russia may not be seen as a huge, even if he generates friction and delay.”

Russell said that the continuation of the purchase of oil from Russia maintains the “strategic solidarity” of Xi with Russian President Vladimir Putin and greatly reduces the economic costs of China.

“Beijing simply cannot move away from oil from Russia and Iran,” he said. “It is extremely important to supply strategic energy, and you can buy it at fire prices.”

The 2024 report issued by the US Energy Information Administration estimates that approximately 80 % to 90 % of the exported oil by Iran went to China. The Chinese economy benefits from more than a million barrels of Iranian oil, which it imports daily.

After the Iranian parliament presented a plan to close the Strait of Hermoz in June after the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, China spoke against the closure of the critical oil transport.

China is also an important agent for Russia, but it is second in the purchase of Russian -transported crude oil exports. In April, Chinese imports of Russian oil increased by 20 % during the previous month to more than 1.3 million barrels per day, according to the KSE Institute, an analytical center at Kyiv College of Economics.

Last week, Mr. Trump The United States said it will impose a 25 % tariff on the goods from IndiaIn addition to an additional import tax due to the purchase of India from Russian oil. On Friday, the Indian Foreign Ministry said its relationship with Russia was “fixed and tested time.”

Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Supreme Policy Adviser, said that Mr. Trump was clear that he was “unacceptable” to India to continue financing the Ukrainian war by buying oil from Russia.

“People will be shocked when they learned that India is mainly associated with China in buying Russian oil,” Miller said on Sunday morning. He said that the United States needs “to deal with the financing of this war.”

Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, is Pressure for sanctions and definitions on Russia And its financial supporters. In April, a draft law would allow the president to impose a tariff of up to 500 % not only on Russia but in any country that buys oil, uranium, natural gas, petroleum products, or petrochemical products from Russia.

“The purpose of this legislation is to break the China -Communist dictatorship – buying oil below the market price from Russia Putin, which enables its war machine to kill innocent Ukrainian civilians,” Graham said in a statement in June.

The draft law contains 84 sponsors participating in the Senate 100 seats. An opposite home version was also presented, with support from the two parties.

Republicans say they are ready to move forward in legislation if Mr. Trump asks them to do so, but the bill is suspended at the present time.