Last month, China imported more Russian crude oil than ever before

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2. I had posted about India doing the same last month

where previously, they got very little from there - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142923926



I also posted this (in part) in the above thread -

What is interesting about the above is that India isn't showing up on there, meaning I expect their recent Russian oil buys in large quantities is establishing that they have shifted their contracts strategy to favor Russia now (the reason which is mentioned - the cheap price).

And doing a quick search, apparently the most used fuel in India is... drum roll.... COAL.



(from here - https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/IND)

But their oil imports have mostly come from the Middle East!



(also from here - https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/IND)