Armchair Intelligence
P0562026-04-13CONDITIONALevent

US targets Chinese-Iranian oil workarounds with secondary sanctions or interdiction within 60 days of blockade (by Jun 12)

Confidence: 0.70Lens: economicTimeframe: 2026-06-12

Prediction Chain

Chinese Oil Workaround
P050decisionconfirmed0.65
China publicly objects to or takes concrete action against Hormuz blockade within 7 days (by Apr 20)
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P051event0.65
China maintains Iranian oil imports through indirect channels (ship-to-ship transfers, third-country transshipment) despite the blockade within 21 days (by May 4)
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P056eventconditional0.70
US targets Chinese-Iranian oil workarounds with secondary sanctions or interdiction within 60 days of blockade (by Jun 12)

Reasoning

The US financial toolkit makes this the obvious response to workarounds. Secondary sanctions threaten any entity facilitating transfers - Omani port operators, ship owners, insurers - with exclusion from the US financial system. Trump already telegraphed it: 'seek and interdict every vessel that has paid a toll to Iran.' Short-term tolerance buys goodwill with Beijing; long-term tolerance undermines the blockade. The tempo is uncertain, not the direction.

Log

2026-04-13Created in SESSION 013SESSION 013
13 April 2026Referenced as new prediction in SESSION 013SESSION 013

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