RE:sunday ...oil, Iran, China etc caffee: Nice summary. Just want to add two topics:
1) Check out the new book (Oct 2019),
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept bt Robert Spaulding
2) Delve into China's Belt & Road Program that is creating a Sinocentric trading and economic empire. It is designed to make China the nexus of literally a New China Empire. It would include Southeast Asia, South Asia, parts of East Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and Central Asia, all connected by the necessary land and sea based infrastructure built by China. Trillions are scheduled to be spent and there even are moves that look like China is extending the system into the Southern Pacific islands and across the Pacific to Central America. A new debt trap colonialism is at the heart of this initiative that will cost trillions of dollars. Of course WTO rules wouldn't apply, this would be run by China with Chinese rules..
America and the West, along with democracy and human rights are being left in the dust. And Trump disengaging America from things international, other than an Iran war, has set the table for China.