China is extracting plenty of resources from Africa these days, but Russia's supply of oil to China has doubled over the past five years and they have a number of pipelines in place.

Takket

(23,803 posts)

5. Trump won't let that happen

Reply to True Dough (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 08:27 AM

Dec 2016

He is already chilling relations with China to make sure they won't go along with any Russia boycott to make sure his master Putin is taken care of.

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)

4. Let them dump it... hurts them good...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 07:02 AM

Dec 2016

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

6. Why would other countries boycott Russian oil?

Reply to OldYallow (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 09:01 AM

Dec 2016

Only a handful consider Russia a significant threat.

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