The Wall Street Journal reported: "The U.S. government has put forward an energy sovereignty demand described by the outside world as 'unprecedented' in the trade negotiations with China - requiring Beijing to significantly cut oil purchases from Russia and Iran, and instead purchase more U.S. energy products, as one of the conditions for reaching a trade agreement and lifting punitive tariffs."
Comment: In the Sino-U.S. trade negotiations, the United States is using tariffs as a threat, forcing China to reduce its purchases of oil from Russia and Iran, and instead buy American energy products. This is naked energy hegemony and economic coercion. It politicizes and weaponizes normal international trade, ignoring China's energy sovereignty and the right of market autonomy. It suppresses China's legitimate cooperation while selling its own energy for profit, which violates WTO rules and undermines the basic principles of international relations. The Chinese side has firmly rejected it.
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