China hasn’t bought a drop of U.S. oil for the last three months, just two months after a record-setting $1 billion in shipments. It’s part of China’s response to U.S. tariffs in the trade war being choreographed by President Xi Jinping and President Trump.
Which raises a rather simple question: Should Trump take one from the Xi playbook and do the same to Saudi Arabia?
Could he stop U.S. oil purchases from Saudi Arabia to show the United States’ displeasure with its de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and his all-but-certain orchestration of the murder of a U.S. resident, Jamal Khashoggi, while in Turkey and the Middle Eastern nation’s continued bombing of civilians in neighboring Yemen. Short answer: Of course.
