China’s Energy Policy: Flexible, but Unshakeable

... actively imposing on several countries. Curiously, these countries include China’s major suppliers of hydrocarbons: Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Libya. All these circumstances create risks for China in endeavouring to meet its development goals. US–China ... ... difficulties in stabilizing China’s economy and in implementing its policies on the domestic and foreign markets, including the energy sector. The trade conflict with the US resulted in China demonstrating its independence from American oil and LNG. For three months (between September and November 2018), Chinese companies did not purchase American oil and resumed imports ...