📰 Israel-Iran War Pushes China Back Toward Russian Gas

As missiles flew over the Middle East, Beijing quietly reopened talks on the long-stalled Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — Moscow's lifeline, and potentially America's loss.

💭 “The volatility of the military situation has shown the Chinese leadership that stable land-based pipeline supply has geopolitical benefits.”

— Alexander Gabuev, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

📊 Strategic Calculations
– Hormuz Alarm: Iran’s threat to close the Strait jolted Beijing — 30% of its LNG sails through that chokepoint
– Teapot Dependency: Over 90% of Iran’s oil exports now go to China, fueling price-driven addiction in China’s private refiners
– Trump’s Shrug: “China can now continue to purchase oil from Iran,” Trump said post-ceasefire — a wink or a warning?
– Pipeline Resurrected: Russia sees its opening — and plans to press the deal when Putin visits Xi in September

💼 The New Gas Game
– Russia lost Europe, but it still has pipe dreams: only a mega-deal with China can salvage Gazprom's future
– China still wary: demands equity, price control, and no more than 20% dependency on any one country
– U.S.-China LNG trade has collapsed — but Beijing’s pivot to “bridge fuels” makes Russian gas too valuable to ignore
– Energy security now trumps ideological hesitation — a message from Xi’s war room to his gas board

🤔 Is America watching as Russia’s pipeline ambitions become China’s insurance policy?

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