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Date: September 03, 2024 at 09:51:11
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ‘Dark’ tanker crash exposes dangers of China’s thirst for cheap oil |
URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/china-dark-ships-south-china-sea/ |
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(Remember the silk road to the Donbas? Xi & Putin bff?
China's navy runs on oil and is getting it's "cheap"
oil from Iran, etc. by way of at least 600 dark ships.
Iran is behind Hamas & Hezbollah. Oh what tangled webs
we weave.)
A crude oil tanker traveling from Iran made a delivery
to the Chinese port city of Ningbo a few months ago
before heading back toward the Middle East. The Ceres I
had made this round trip several times in the past
year, according to ship-tracking data. But it didn’t
complete this voyage.
The Ceres I and another tanker collided off Malaysia in
the South China Sea on July 19, causing significant
damage to both vessels. Malaysian authorities said the
Ceres I had experienced “technical difficulties.” But
shipping and energy analysts say the pattern of the
vessel’s movements before the collision suggests
another explanation: The Ceres I had been broadcasting
a fake location on ship locator channels.
Among groups that track ship movements, the Ceres I was
widely known to be part of a “dark” fleet of tankers
operating outside international regulations to feed
China’s appetite for sanctioned crude oil. China, the
world’s biggest importer of oil, is one of the few
remaining customers of crude from countries such as
Iran, Venezuela and Russia, which are subject to heavy
sanctions by the United States.
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Date: September 03, 2024 at 10:40:15
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘Dark’ tanker crash exposes dangers of China’s thirst for cheap... |
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Six hundred illegal ships.
But to stop them?
Remember that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor only after we
cut off their access to our oil.
We are already screwing up Russian/Chinese plans by not
letting Putin roll over Ukraine and suck up the Donbas.
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