cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/66580854
The crude stockpiles held by the country’s state-owned energy companies remain nearly full. Beijing appears not to have tapped its vast strategic reserves, and storage tanks at Chinese refineries are brimming with petrol, diesel and other refined products.
China was able to reduce imports so sharply in part because it had been buying more oil than it needed before the war. For years, it accumulated inventories whenever prices were low as part of a broader push to strengthen national self-reliance and improve its ability to withstand supply disruptions.
China is by no means perfect, but framing a country doing exactly as what every country should be doing as somehow sinister or having nefarious motives smacks of deep anti-Chinese indoctrination.
Yes China is doing what other countries are doing including atrocity crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Tibet
Just like all the other superpowers historically have done.
United states:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_atrocity_crimes
Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union
Any country questing to become a dominant power over the planet needs to be feared. History is not on the side of the subjugated people.