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In the Blind Spot: Why Trump’s hidden energy ally might be Beijing

This is a guest contribution from anon.  For most of 2025, China looked like the world’s hungriest oil hoarder, socking away over 100 million barrels over the last five months — roughly 700,000 barrels a day of demand that kept crude markets tighter than they really were. It helped benchmark crudes like WTI and Brent […]