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Says oil prices could spike to unimaginably high levels if the world doesnt come together to deter iran theyve been attacks on the saudi oil sector the Worlds Largest crude exporter sharply reducing production still havent been so and says he prefers a political solution to a military one thats helping ease Oil Prices Today but not the saudis worries fitch has downgraded their Credit Rating citing the rising tensions. Saudi arabias message is clear an Armed Conflict with iran would have catastro...

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China could be entering choppy Middle Eastern waters. Multiple crises and conflicts will likely shape its relations with the region’s major powers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.

Front in asia with the united states participation. something that the president will hopes to lead asia with as he departs later today. >> all right. steven, i want to turn to you of course in beijing to get the latest on chinas reaction to president bidens comments. regarding taiwan and of course his clarification. anymore on that? >> no official response to the clarification just yet. i think chinas likely to stick to the usual talking points claiming taiwan is the reddest of the so called re...

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Russia and ukraine and the neighbouring countries but in particular emerging economies dependent on this region for theirfood. also those their food. also those dependent on low energy prices are also seeing their price inflation forecast going up and therefore cast fault growth going down also. a troubling set of forecasts for the worlds economic outlook that also concerned that this between shock of pandemic and then while, that has its own set of dilemmas is beginning to unpick. —— war. v...

Now this is all top of the fact that chinas economy is still looking very weak even though it was a relatively positive factory activity numbers today now with all this instability is sending a lot of ripples across asia and asia is very dependent on saudi oil some 70 percent of all more of its oil supply comes from the kingdom and any disruption to supply or even the threat to global prices is going to lead asia on shaky ground in fact it already is now weathering any kind of disruption is goin...