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China brokers Iran-Saudi peace: big blow to petrodollar, geopolitical game changer

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China Is a Reliable Friend of Saudi Arabia and Iran

The US government under Donald Trump murdered the top Iranian official Qasem Soleimani who had been overseeing those peace talks in Iraq. Now if you look at what the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, they made a very important comment that China is a reliable friend of both Saudi Arabia and Iran. That is important because it shows that Saudi Arabia doesn't want to have to choose between one of these two powers. The US has been trying to divide up the world into bipolar blocks as part of a new cold war forcing countries to pick a side.

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