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her with Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, has stockpiled oil in ships off the coast of Al- Fujairah, outside the critical shipping chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, and added emergency crude oil stocks in China, Japan, South Korea, and Rotterdam. This coordination helped keep oil prices from spiking when West

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