Analysts long assumed a Middle Eastern blockade would cripple China due to its reliance on imported oil, but that assumption is dangerously out of date. Having spent years hoarding strategic energy reserves, increasing overland Russian imports and cultivating diplomatic leverage, Beijing has engineered a position of considerable strength, which it has been using to its advantage.

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    Who would have thought the TV star would be an absolute failure as president. Republicans are stupid.

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      Well as I have said for years, we elect people who reflect us as a nation. It is not just the Republicans. The whole country is stupid and we revel in it.

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      the TV star would be an absolute failure as president.

      He wasn’t even very good at being a TV personality.

      The producers and editors had to work overtime to make him look competent, sane and non-racist.