Ben Shapiro

According to the Financial Times, President Trump will urge Xi Jinping to curb China's support for Iran when the leaders meet in Beijing.

According to one U.S.

official, he said Trump would resume the previous discussions with Xi about China's support for Iran and Russia, including providing them with dual-use components and potential arms exports.

And again, the idea that America has no cards to play is insane.

By the way, you want to end China's support for Iran?

Very, very easy.

A couple of bombing runs and China's support for Iran is over.

Just destroy their energy facilities and there's nothing left for China to care about in Iran.

You think that China cares about the Islamists in Iran?

They love them.

They may like that they're kind of vaguely anti-American or wildly anti-American, but they certainly don't like the idea that revolutionary Islam is somehow going to take over planet Earth.

They're interning a million Muslims right now in China.

The only reason they care about Iran is because of the oil resources.

So if we decided to really put the screws to China, all we would have to do is bomb Karg Island and destroy their energy facilities in Iran.

And suddenly China switches sides because all China cares about at that point is freeing up the Iraqi oil, freeing up the Saudi oil, freeing up the UAE's oil, Qatar's oil.

You know, America, by cracking down on Iran's economic machine, has cracked down on China as well.

According to Zineb Reboa, who's a research fellow with the Huston Institute Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East,

We have been systematically degrading China's financial machine in Iran.

Quote, first, Beijing built the financial plumbing, developing methods for shadow banking, obscuring the origins of Iranian crude, rotating ship identities, layering payments through third country intermediaries.

Second, its teapot refinery sector absorbed most of Iran's oil exports to China.