Energy Analyst Claims Chinese Government Ended Export Ban After Iran Strikes

What was said

"This morning when I woke up to the strikes and I woke up to an announcement on behalf of the Chinese saying that they were stopping the export ban of refiners and what that actually means is Chinese refineries are for business go back up to normal. So again, this is what I thought was going to happen. I thought that the Chinese were giving the Americans a chance to implement the MOU and once the MOU fell apart, the Chinese said screw this."

Energy analyst Philip claims China lifted its refinery export ban immediately following the collapse of the Iran-US memorandum of understanding and Trump's strikes on Iran. He asserts China had deliberately reduced oil imports to give the Trump administration a 60-day grace period to resolve the Strait of Hormuz crisis, but reversed course once diplomatic efforts failed. The claim suggests coordinated Chinese economic policy tied to Middle East geopolitics.