Loren B. Thompson, l’honorable correspondant de Lockheed Martin qui jouit de ce qui lui reste d’esprit \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s libre dans ses commentaires g\u00e9n\u00e9raux, notamment \u00e9conomiques, s’int\u00e9resse \u00e0 une analyse de Bloomberg.News<\/em> mettant en \u00e9vidence comment la Chine profite de l’embargo US sur le p\u00e9trole iranien, en refusant cet embargo et en accentuant son commerce avec l’Iran \u00e0 des conditions tr\u00e8s avantageuses pour elle. L’Iran consent \u00e0 de fortes r\u00e9duction sur le prix de son p\u00e9trole pour accentuer l’engagement chinois dans ce commerce, et renforcer de ce fait l’opposition chinoise aux initiatives US. C’est une sorte de m\u00e9lange de la vertu antiam\u00e9ricaniste et de l’int\u00e9r\u00eat selon les normes du Syst\u00e8me auxquelles personne n’\u00e9chappe tant que le dit Syst\u00e8me ne s’est pas compl\u00e8tement effondr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’\u00e9tude montre que l’engagement US de prot\u00e9ger le commerce et le passage par le d\u00e9troit d’Ormouz du p\u00e9trole profite bien entendu \u00e0 tous, mais particuli\u00e8rement \u00e0 ceux qui font le plus de commerce dans ce cas. Ainsi en effet est prot\u00e9g\u00e9 le p\u00e9trole iranien dont les Chinois font grand usage et ne cessent de faire de plus en plus grand usage, beaucoup plus d\u00e9pendants du Golfe que les USA par exemple, mais bon exemple, on s’en doute. Nous sommes dans une compl\u00e8te logique de globalisation, o\u00f9 tout<\/strong> se m\u00e9lange, les int\u00e9r\u00eats commerciaux, les voies de communication, les int\u00e9r\u00eats de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale et le comportement m\u00e9galomaniaque<\/a> de qui l’on sait, malgr\u00e9 les \u00e9normes et nombreux antagonismes qu’on trouve dans ce tout<\/strong>. Loren B. Nous parle depuis Early Warning<\/em>, ce 13 janvier 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abBloomberg News yesterday released a thoughtful analysis of how Persian Gulf developments are impacting global petroleum trade that puts U.S. security operations there in a new light. Reporters Indira A. R. Lakshmanan and Gopal Ratnam found that while America is leading military efforts to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, China figures to be the biggest beneficiary. The reason why is that as the U.S. and its allies move to cut off their purchases of Iranian oil as a way of pressuring Teheran to end its nuclear-weapons program, China can get big discounts up to 40 percent on its own continuing purchases of Iran’s oil.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAccording to the Bloomberg story, China imports about 5 million barrels of oil per day, half of which comes from the Persian Gulf region. The U.S. gets about 18 percent of its crude oil and petroleum products from the same region. But whereas U.S. imports of Persian Gulf oil originate mainly in Saudi Arabia, China gets a substantial share of its own imports from Iran. In fact, China is the biggest refiner of Iranian oil, consuming 22 percent of the country’s oil exports. While other countries have been gradually turning to alternate sources as the U.S. and Europe impose economic sanctions on the Teheran government, Chinese purchases of Iranian oil surged nearly 30 percent in 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAs sanctions begin to bite, China looks poised to reap big benefits in the petroleum prices it pays by demanding discounts from the increasingly desperate Iranian government. Teheran generates most of its budget from oil sales, so it is incentivized to sell more oil to China as U.S. allies like Germany and Japan turn to other sources. That gives Chinese oil purchasers considerable leverage in pricing their imports. The irony is that China is doing nothing to police Persian Gulf waters while America a nation that is becoming less dependent on offshore sources of petroleum pays most of the military bills to assure safe passage of oil out of the Gulf.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comment la Chine soutient l’Iran sous la protection de l’U.S. Navy Loren B. 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