What if Russia could deprive Europe of its gas!
Like that, in a few days, just to create panic by diverting all its flows to China.
This seems to be a threat to which the Kremlin would like to make Westerners aware.
It is also thanks to tensions between Moscow and the West over Ukraine that gas contracts tend to be signed between Russia and China.
Witness the agreement signed between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on February 4, on the occasion of the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, for the delivery of 10 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year extracted from the deposit. Sakhalin 3. Moscow's “pivot to Asia” is primarily motivated by anger with the West.
In May 2014, between the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the war in Donbass, Moscow agreed to sign a contract estimated at 400 billion dollars for the delivery to China for thirty years of 38 billion cubic meters per year (i.e. practically…
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