Natural gas is hard to store, but China has found a way to do it, while also developing alternate suppliers and expanding production at home.
Category: Xi Jinping
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How China Built Its Vast Natural Gas Stockpile
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This Is Not China’s War, but Beijing Started Preparing for It Years Ago
The New York Times – Business:Long concerned about geopolitical crises, China redoubled efforts to secure energy security when President Trump started raising the stakes in his first term.
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Iran’s Hormuz Stranglehold Upends Markets and Geopolitics
The New York Times – Business:Energy prices continued to climb around the world as war in the Middle East intensifies. That has scrambled President Trump’s foreign policy strategy.
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Trump Officials Look to More Managed Approach to Trade With China
The New York Times – Business:The administration has begun discussing a new “Board of Trade” with China to try to balance what U.S. officials see as an unequal economic relationship.
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Why Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Problem Is Going Global
The New York Times – Business:President Trump is getting little to no support so far for his call that other countries do their part to try to ease an energy crisis prompted by U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.
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A Trump-Xi Summit Nears, but China Doesn’t Know What Trump Wants
The New York Times – Business:Trump’s agenda for the high-stakes meeting remains unclear to Beijing, Chinese analysts say, while American executives say they haven’t been invited along.
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The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
The New York Times – Business:If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.
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Crises Everywhere, but the Markets Don’t Seem to Mind
The New York Times – Business:Stocks have prospered while the world has plunged into disorder, an economist says. “Keep calm and carry on” may be the best investors can do.
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In a Bid to Kick-Start Growth, Britain Turns to China
Buffeted by tariffs and trade tensions, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took British business leaders to China and emerged with deals on visas and Scotch whisky, as well as pledges to deepen ties.
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U.K.’s Starmer Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing as Ties Warm
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain met with President Xi Jinping of China as he sought to promote business ties with the world’s second-largest economy.