{"id":25170,"date":"2022-06-20T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25170"},"modified":"2022-06-20T05:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:53:24","slug":"ukraine-war-russia-becomes-chinas-biggest-oil-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25170","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Russia becomes China&#8217;s biggest oil supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:-   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russia has become China&#8217;s biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes in the wake of a February meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-60257080\">where the two countries said their friendship had &#8220;no limits&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encouraged by lower prices, Chinese firms have ramped up purchases of Russian oil this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Official figures show that imports of Russian oil rose by 55% from a year earlier to a record level in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The supply, which includes supplies pumped through the East Siberia Pacific Ocean pipeline and shipments by sea from Russia&#8217;s European and Far Eastern ports, totalled nearly 8.42m tonnes last month, according to data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That pushed Saudi Arabia &#8211; formerly China&#8217;s biggest source of crude oil &#8211; into second place with 7.82m tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News:- Russia has become China&#8217;s biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war. This comes in the wake of a February meeting where the two countries said their friendship had &#8220;no limits&#8221;. Encouraged by lower prices, Chinese firms have ramped up purchases of Russian oil this year. Official figures show that imports of Russian oil rose by 55% from a year earlier to a record level in May. The supply, which includes supplies pumped through the East Siberia Pacific Ocean pipeline and shipments by sea from Russia&#8217;s European and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25172,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions\/25172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}