UK Sanctions Russia, China Buys Russian Gas: Who Looked Away?
The headline screams: 'China Takes Blacklisted Russian LNG in Defiance of UK Sanctions.' (As if Beijing cares about London’s geopolitical theatrics). The article laments China's 'appetite for Moscow’s energy supplies despite Western efforts to curb such trade.' One might wonder if Bloomberg forgot that Europe spent years lecturing the world on climate change while simultaneously increasing its
reliance on Russian gas before the Ukraine war. Or perhaps they've memory-holed the US demanding Saudi Arabia increase oil production while wagging its finger at others over human rights. This isn't 'defiance'; it's global trade operating exactly as it does when major powers prioritize their own energy security over the ever-shifting goalposts of Western 'sanctions'—which, let's be frank, are
often more about controlling rivals than upholding any universal moral code. The 'sanctioned' port facility being the critical detail here, not China's sovereign right to buy energy from whomever it damn well pleases. How many times must the West declare an energy source 'blacklisted' before someone in the media asks if anyone actually cares?