As the United States reaches day six of Operation Epic Fury, the focus is shifting to how our military successes are impacting our primary foreign adversaries, particularly China. By Wednesday, the United States has effectively established control over the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passage through which approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows daily.
This strategic control not only restricts Iran and its terrorist affiliates from leveraging the strait but also provides the United States with a significant advantage over China, which depends on the strait for an estimated 40 to 50 percent of its oil imports.
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Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, noted on Fox News that the U.S. now possesses not only increased economic leverage over China but also a growing strategic edge. He pointed out that Beijing is now faced with the reality that its military advancements may not be able to match those of the United States, especially considering that the Chinese and Russian-supplied weapons used by Venezuela and Iran have proven ineffective against American forces:
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“Look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right? There’s a military response. But now we have a massive energy response, which is we simply don’t allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz,” Schweizer explained. “We can do it. It might have been a little bit dicey had we not taken out the Iranians. That’s roughly half of their oil. Forty to 50 percent of their oil is now suddenly not available to them. So those are enormous methodologies.”
Schweizer further argued that the United States now has leverage over approximately half of China’s oil supply. He noted that Beijing is becoming increasingly aware that its military equipment may not be on par with that of the United States.
And look at what happens in terms of military technology, Jesse. China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. They didn’t shoot down one American or Israeli plane. This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F-15s went up against the Syrians flying MiGs and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero. What happened after that? They couldn’t give the MiGs away.
So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to par to the United States. That’s going to have huge implications with a whole host of other countries. So they lose a bunch of customers and they lose face. Now that the United States, if this mission is successful, now we have no idea how this is going to play out.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters then inquired about the current position of the United States regarding Venezuela and Iran, especially in light of their heightened susceptibility to American influence.
“Well, it means that a lot of countries in the developing world that might have been flirting with China don’t want to flirt with them anymore because they realize that, A, China can sign all the quote-unquote strategic partnerships they want, but they’re not going to do anything about it if their allies get in trouble,” Schweizer argued. “I mean, all China’s done is send some scolding messages. They haven’t done a single thing to stand up for their allies. Second of all, they understand that this administration is the partner that they want to be in business with, not Beijing.”
