Five Ways China Is Shielding Itself as the Hormuz Cease-Fire Collapses
The U.S.-Iran cease-fire that was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for good is falling apart. American forces reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports this week and hit dozens of targets along Iran's coast, and Tehran answered by striking tankers moving through the strait without its perm
Source: OilPrice.com
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DW NOTE
China has spent the Hormuz crisis locking in Russian crude at distressed prices and routing shipments through overland pipelines that bypass the strait entirely. When your largest energy supplier is a sanctions pariah with nowhere else to sell and your infrastructure already circumvents the world's biggest chokepoint, a blockade becomes someone else's problem.