Middle East news sources are now reporting about a deal between Saudi Arabia and China that has been in the works since January. In fact, a member of the Saudi royal family was brought out of retirement to negotiate it. Prince Bandar, the former longtime Saudi ambassador to the United States, has tentatively worked out an agreement with the Chinese.
The Saudis want to purchase off-the-shelf nuclear missiles from China. The Dong Feng 21 medium-range ballistic missiles will carry a single nuclear warhead payload. They will be installed at bases in Saudi Arabia that are inaccessible to Iran. In return, Saudi Arabia will guarantee an unlimited supply of oil to China through the year 2035.
You don’t have to be a foreign affairs expert to know that China is the most voracious user of energy in the world. With her masses, and the need to keep those masses happy by keeping them gainfully employed, China is on a constant hunt for new sources of fuel. In fact, it’s China’s (and India’s) insatiable hunger for energy that made the Kyoto Treaty so laughable that the Democrat-controlled Senate, by a vote of 95-0, told President Bill Clinton not to even think about bringing it to the Senate for ratification. Why? Because it didn’t bind China or India to compliance. Just the West.
So here you have the world’s greatest consumer of fuel and energy — who has expressed no intention of curbing that appetite — making a deal for unlimited supplies of oil from the world’s largest exporter of oil. And the deal’s good for the next 23 years!
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[For] Bible prophecy watchers, this is a massive story. Many have wondered what could conceivably cause the Kings of the East to send an army of 200 million men into the Middle East to confront the forces of the Gog-Magog alliance. Could it be the threat to their energy lifelines?
from The Hal Lindsey Report – June 22, 2012
