China-Russia energy trade

A U.S. blockade of Russian maritime crude oil exports to China is feasible, but would be extremely unwise outside of wartime or near-wartime conditions. 

With the exit of European partners and buyers, Russia is looking to China and India to get its Arctic energy projects off the ground. 

The consistency and reliability of Asian buyers of Russian oil, LNG, and coal are the most important factor granting Moscow strategic space in the face of Western mobilization.

Russia’s rising energy trade with Asia – including China and India – masks underlying problems, including artificially low prices and maxed-out infrastructure.

China’s mixed signals on the Ukraine crisis extend to the economic realm, long a weak point for Sino-Russia ties.

China’s economic maturation into a consumer economy is a gut punch to Russia’s economic model.

20 years ago, Putin flipped Russia's entire strategic orientation on its head. Is he ready to do so again?

As COVID-19 fundamentally disrupts the energy market, Russia’s economic reliance on China deepens without much prospect for future growth.

Are we on the verge of a new era of natural gas geopolitics?

The opening of the Power of Siberia pipeline draws attention to a blossoming energy partnership between China and Russia.