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But first, Saudis and talks to start selling some oil in yuan.

We grab this from anti-empirateempirate.com.

And it's just, I have to say right from the beginning, look at these dudes.

Face masks and elbow bumps.

What a bright, horrible future.

James, they look like they're striking like superhero poses or something.

Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price some of its oil sales to China in Yuan,

a move that would dent the U.S. dollar's dominance of the global petroleum market

and mark another shift by the world's top crude exporter toward Asia.

The talks with China over yuan-priced oil contracts have been off and on for six years,

but have accelerated as many things have this year,

as the Saudis have grown increasingly unhappy with decades-old U.S. security commitments to defend the kingdom.

The Saudis are angry over the U.S.'s lack of support for their criminal intervention in the Yemen Civil War

and over the Biden administration's attempt to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear deal program.

Saudi officials have said they were shocked by the precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year and notes that China buys more than 25% of the oil that Saudi Arabia exports.

If priced in yuan, those sales would boost the standing of China's currency.

The Saudis are also considering including yuan denominated futures contracts known as the petro yuan

in the pricing model of Saudi Arabian oil company, aka Aramco. It would be a profound shift for Saudi Arabia at a price, even some of

its roughly 6.2 million barrels a day of crude exports in anything other than U.S. American dollars.

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