Todays Reuters article (March 20) explains Chinas stronger position versus the West/USA through its successful seven-year policy-driven campaign (since 2018) to reverse declining domestic oil output, achieving a record 4.32 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2025.It is very informative for all those "experts" who assume that current clusterfuck in ME is a machiavellian American/Israeli game to weaken China xDhttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-record-oil-output-reaches-limits-whats-possible-2026-03-20/Aggressive measures (drilling in ageing fields like Daqing with world-leading tertiary recovery tech, offshore boom in Bohai Bay + deepwater South China Sea, nascent shale oil surge to 164,000 bpd) boosted production from lows, creating a "stabiliser" for national security, manufacturing, and military needs. This provides a domestic buffer against "unpredictable supply disruptions" (Middle East conflicts cutting exports, which supply half of China's imports), reducing vulnerability amid global volatility.Implicit contrasts to West/USA:USA leads in efficient, low-cost shale (9.7+ million bpd), but China built a policy-orchestrated turnaround from decline, achieving self-sufficiency gains despite higher shale costs.China diversifies via electrification/clean tech leadership ("electrostate"), coal dominance, and stockpiles (115+ days coverage), insulating it better from oil shocks than import-reliant allies or sanction-exposed West.China has currently the highest EV penetration on the planet : approx 60% compared to only 9% in the US.Chinas output peak/plateau signals limits but reinforces long-term security edge over geopolitically exposed importers.Overall, the piece portrays China as more resilient in energy security now via deliberate domestic boosts and buffers than a West more tied to volatile global markets.
According to the latest Netanyahu speech the plan of the war was (still is?) a swift regime change in Iran, taking over commercial Iranian oil/gas installations and selling resources to Europe for a premium price xDhttps://x.com/clashreport/status/2034709673484407153
>source: I chinged it the chong uprapeape and his wumao sponsors deserve to be flayed
>>531185627Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy (detailed analysis of Chinas oil demand, imports, supply security): Notes seven-year campaign reversed decline, output near historical peaks (4.32 mb/d), bolstering security amid import risks.https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/chinas-oil-demand-imports-and-supply-securityCSIS ChinaPower Project ("How Robust Is China's Energy Security?"): Highlights strong self-reliance gains via domestic boosts, reserves expansion (115+ days), diversification/electrification insulating better from oil shocks than exposed importers.https://chinapower.csis.org/china-energy-securityOilPrice.com (multiple pieces on production surge/Seven-Year Plan): Details policy turnaround from 2018 lows to 4.3 mb/d record in 2025 via Daqing EOR, Bohai, shale - strategic buffer for security, contrasting higher-cost shale with US efficiency but emphasizing Chinas resilience edge.https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Chinas-Oil-Pumping-Power-Breaks-All-Records.htmlhttps://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-Chinas-Oil-Production-Keeps-Growing-Despite-Lower-Oil-Prices.htmlEnergy Intelligence ("Chinas Upstream Booms With Energy Security in Focus"): Covers Xis 2018 push, output rise 600 kb/d from 2018 trough to near 4.4 mb/d, top-5 global producer status as security stabilizer vs geopolitical exposure.https://www.energyintel.com/00000198-c6e2-db15-a5fd-f6fbc6fd0000Ember discusses clean energy/electrification reducing fossil import dependence, high EV adoption aiding oil demand plateau/peak, enhancing security buffers.https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/09/China-Energy-Transition-Review-2025.pdf
Current Middle East disruptions (Iran conflict, Hormuz closure) hit Europe/West/Japan/Korea much harder than China due to stark energy security differences. China is currently having record domestic oil output that could even double in a next decade that provides a buffer, massive stockpiles (1.4B barrels, 6+ months import cover), diversified sources (temporary backup ib form of Russia pipelines), and rapid EV/electrification rapidly reducing oil dependence.Europe relies heavily on imports (only 50% domestic energy), faces acute gas/oil price spikes and shortages. US is self-sufficient (108% domestic), but itd "allies" suffer.Chinas "electrostate" strategy insulates it far better from Gulf shocks.Thats why everything Trump/Netanyahu do in ME hits Europe/NATO/EU/Japan/Korea, not China xDThe US is an enemy of its own "allies", not China because allies are weak enough to get robbed/blackmailed/etc. This trick is impossible vs China. End of story xD
>>531186865Thats why i believe China might have actually an interest in supporting Iran including its destabilizing role in the region because it forces the US (so far successfully) to engagement in ME, which : 1) depletes its limited resources strained due to deindustrialisation, 2) turns away American attention from Pacific.All of this despite official Chinese diplomatic stance presenting the country as a peace-promoter.
>>531184514China has two problems: where to sell its surplus and how to develop technology without the West. That's why they don't quarrel with the West, preferring to tolerate everything the West does.
>>531188274>China has two problems: where to sell its surplus and how to develop technology without the West. That's why they don't quarrel with the West, preferring to tolerate everything the West doesThats bullshit. China already solved the problem by implementing Dual Circulation strategy since 2020 that prioritizes domestic consumption to export. Xi wants the Chinese to buy/consume more now. Same with resources like rare-earth elements, they became a fully controlled good. Chinese products expand massively in developing countries as well. Finally Chinese R&D is far ahead of the West in many crucial fields already. Europe begs China to build EV factories in their low-tech brown shitholes, roles were reversed.
>>531188523What he wants and what they do are separate things, the chinese will avoid going full consumer madness and will stale their economy like it happened to the japanese
>>531188637So far all their central plans succeed. I hear about imminent collapse of China in Western media for like 3 decades already xD
>>531184514Self-sufficient? M8 they import the majority of their energy and even rely on food imports, that's how they sustain their large scale manufacturing and social order. China doesn't have the political or market framework to handle things like agricultural barons without a MIC, the US and USSR spent the entire Cold War trying to reign them in. Even Mao in the 60s was fighting literal warlords, in a perfect world all farming would be done by machines Iran was honestly a godsend for monopolizing fertilizer in Asia.
>>531188781why won't china use its gigantic manufacturing base to make gorillion drones a day and attack american vassals and assets in their area? is there a flaw to this strategy?
>>531184514add to that, China 84% energy independenceEU 42%Japan 17%
>>531185627>wuamoshibboleth for 60-80 IQ prole laborers who spend too much time on /pol/.
>>531189600You are shifting the goalposts. No one claimed China is _fully_ self-sufficient in energy or food. The argument was about strategic autonomy: reducing systemic dependency, not full autarky. The US of A is not fully dependent either. China could easily destabilize it just by halting all export. xDChina is oil importer, of course, but it has aggressively diversified, massive renewables buildout (over 50% of global solar/wind), long-term supply deals with Russia, Central Asia, and the Global South, and strategic reserves. 60% EV penetration in 2026, could easily turn into 100% in early 30s. Dependency exists but is no longer a single-point vulnerability tied to Western goodwill.Yes, China imports onions, corn, etc. But it maintains >95% self-sufficiency in staple grains (rice, wheat) through state-managed reserves. Your agricultural barons tangent misreads history. Chinas agricultural system is fragmented smallholders, not a Cold War-style MIC complex. The US/USSR struggle with agribusiness aint analogous. xDIf we talk about fertilizers, Iran isnt a monopoly player. China is actually the worlds top fertilizer producer (phosphate, nitrogen) and has diversified potash imports from Russia and Belarus. Iran provides some urea, but framing it as a "godsend" vastly overstates leverage. You are making shit up, dude.My point stands: China has systematically reduced exposure to Western-controlled markets and supply chains, not eliminated imports altogether. Thats the actual strategy implemented rapidky and with full success so far
>>531190010>The US of A is not fully dependent either*independent
>>531190010>China is heavily dependent on food imports to feed its 1.4 billion people, with its overall food self-sufficiency ratio dropping from 93.6% to around 65.8% between 2000 and 2020. While largely self-sufficient in staples like rice and wheat, China is the world's largest importer of agricultural commodities, particularly basedbeans, corn, and edible oils, importing nearly 60% of global basedbean exports. >China is highly dependent on energy imports for oil (over 70% imported) and to a lesser extent natural gas (~42% imported), making it the world's largest importer of bothA 3 second search can save you a paragraph of hallucination. The US is fully independent with energy and food the government even subsidizes agriculture, the only reason they were able to do this is because they top down seized the entire agricultural sector in the 1970s which causes massive stagflation at the time. The US produces all of its food, oil, gas, etc. and the DoD entirely controls the energy sector. The only reason any of this was possible was because of the MIC, Russia did the same after the USSR fell.
>>531190550Dude, you are the one living in MAGA-tier hallucinations xDChina's food import dependency is overstated. Broad food self-sufficiency (often cited at 82%) drops mainly due to basedbeans (80% imported for livestock feed/oil amid meat demand growth), not human staples. Rice/wheat/grain self-sufficiency stays high (>90%, averaging 101% 2010-2022). Including basedbeans overstates risks, as they aint primary ration. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/13/5965CSIS notes China meets 139% caloric needs (dom+imports), undernourishment <2.5%, holds half global grain reserves, and hit record 706.5M-ton grain harvest in 2024 via yields/GM tech. Diversified suppliers (Brazil > US for onions) and reserves blunt geopolitical shocks much better than in the Westhttps://chinapower.csis.org/china-food-security/Western nations (US, EU) rely more on open markets and fewer strategic reserves. It exposes them to global price volatility, export bans or supplier disruptions. The US exports heavily but imports minimally for staples, so OK but shitty Europe faces huge energy/food import risks. Chinas approach - high domestic production (700M+ tons grain in 2025), diversification, and hoarding offers FAR greater resilience to targeted geopolitical pressures than Western just-in-time models xD
>>531189772Iran just launches supply line from within the Heartland in form of "humanitarian aid".https://united24media.com/latest-news/110-truck-humanitarian-convoy-from-central-asia-heads-to-iran-but-whats-inside-17049Thats barely beginnig. Iran will be getting pretty much unlimited "humanitarian aid" now for a cover up of component/material supplies for weapon production.W rezultacie twoje rzymianskie sojooszniki zrobiom koope na szatko (bledy ortograficzne zamierzone) xD
>>531192286Sie zesrajom i bedzie smroot xD
>>531191153Fewer strategic reserves? The US and Europe are net exporters of agricultural goods. China imported like half of their sulfur from Iran which they need to synthesize fertilizer. The only way people survive 'geopolitical shocks' is by deindustrializing which is what China has been doing, but at the same time that means completely restructuring their economy away from an export focus. And 65% is their OVERALL food sufficiency, not just onions and corn, as in their total caloric intake. If they want to correct this dependency they need to import more oil and gas, which they don't want to do for security reasons. So it's lose/lose unless they start deindustrializing and correcting these dependencies, but that also means stagnating their economy as they move away from industry.
>>531184514Ok chong.CHING CHONG! DING DONG! SO HUNGY! WHERE DOG?!?!?
>>531193119US/EU are actually deindustrializing and liquidating ag, you fkn idiot xDUS farms: lost 15,000 in 2025 alone (total 1.865M, down 8% since 2018). Small ops collapsing; only mega-farms (> $1M sales) grow. Land in farms shrinking. US now has ag trade deficit ($41.7B 2025, first net importer since 1959 xDhttps://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/business-inputs/article/2026/02/17/us-agriculture-loses-15-000-farmsEU: 10M farms declining fast via CAP/Green Deal (27M ha ag land lost 1990-2015). Dairy/beef/pig output projected to fall, regs cut pesticides/land use which leads to protests and agriculture wipe-out. https://www.triptolemos.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/TRIPTOLEMOS-REPORT-IMPACT-GREEN-DEAL.pdfGermany (EU core) lost 250k manufacturing jobs recently, steel output -10%; energy prices 3x US. Industrial production down, potential output fell 1.2% from crisis. EU 58% energy imported, fossil/renewables shift raises costs which leads to rapid deindustrializationhttps://eidoism.org/blog/2025/09/05/europes-industrial-decline-and-energy-disruption-2025-2045/China imports 47% of its sulfur indeed but sources are diversified: Gulf nations (UAE, Saudi, Oman) dominate (55-56% of imports in 2025), with UAE leading. Iran share is actually fkn minor. xD China taps strategic reserves & alternatives from East Asia to buffer disruptions.It is YOU (the West) who is currently being butchered by your own elites with using "genetic vaccinations", toxic/carcinogenic "food", 9 month pregnancy "abortions", euthanasia and more to come. Global elites no longer needs you. They deem you as "useless eaters" who only consume while producing nothing. You are a burden on limited resources. Thats why nothing bad is going to happen to Chins that global elites need for production and R&D. You are going to be drown along with your LGBTQ+, BLM, niggers, trannies and other human trash.Check mate xD
>>531185560So it is the plan to cut us off from energy.
>>531194764At this point i truly doubt these idiots (Trump/Netanyahu) have _any_ plan xD
>>531184514>oy vey goyim China won, you can give upThat iron dome wasn't all that good, wasn't it, rabbi?
>>531195222The West (including Canada) is full of Jews, tho, also on highest state/finance/media positions. China doesnt have such a feature (yet). Your antisemitism is being irrationally misdirected as of 2026 xD
>>531189772Because they can use and supply their proxies (Iran) to do that and cause unlimited pain
>>531195441Indeed. They can. And the US of A cant prevent it.
