{"id":1339610,"date":"2026-01-02T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sanctions-are-not-working-china-continues-to-buy-russian-gas-and-even-plans-to-increase-imports\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:35:01","slug":"sanctions-are-not-working-china-continues-to-buy-russian-gas-and-even-plans-to-increase-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sanctions-are-not-working-china-continues-to-buy-russian-gas-and-even-plans-to-increase-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions are not working: China continues to buy Russian gas and even plans to increase imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China received 22 shipments of Russian liquefied natural gas from sanctioned projects in 2025. This indicates that US and EU sanctions have not affected supplies, and Beijing plans to increase them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/china-receives-22-shipments-lng-sanctioned-russian-projects-2025-2026-01-02\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to analytical companies Kpler and LSEG, 22 batches of Russian LNG were delivered to the Chinese Beihai terminal. One batch came from the Portovaya port, the rest from the Arctic LNG 2 project.<\/p>\n<p> The projects were previously sanctioned by the US and the European Union in an attempt to cut off Russia&#8217;s oil and gas revenues. However, two Chinese state-owned companies &#8211; China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) &#8211; each have a 10% stake in Arctic LNG 2, which has helped to keep supplies flowing.<\/p>\n<p> Kpler analysts tracked tankers delivering sanctioned LNG to Beihai:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 August 8;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Voskhod&#8221; \u2013 September 6;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Zorya&#8221; \u2013 September 9;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Buran&#8221; \u2013 September 12;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Iris&#8221; \u2013 September 16;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 September 22;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic East&#8221; \u2013 September 30;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;La Perouse&#8221; \u2013 October 9;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Metagas&#8221; \u2013 October 14;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 October 17;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Iris&#8221; \u2013 October 23;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic East&#8221; \u2013 October 27;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;La Perouse&#8221; \u2013 October 30;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 November 11;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Voskhod&#8221; \u2013 November 20;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Pioneer&#8221; \u2013 November 22;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic East&#8221; \u2013 November 26;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 December 4;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Zorya&#8221; \u2013 December 11;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Iris&#8221; \u2013 December 30;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Arctic Mulan&#8221; \u2013 December 31.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> LNG arrived from the Portovaya port only once &#8211; the tanker Valera delivered the cargo on December 8. The owners and operators of the vessels could not be identified.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>China has no plans to abandon Russian LNG<\/strong> . According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-12\/china-ratchets-up-efforts-to-import-blacklisted-russian-lng?srnd=homepage-europe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> , Beijing has begun building a domestic &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; to circumvent Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Marine LNG purchases from Russia are often cheaper and allow for stronger ties between the two economies,&#8221; analysts noted.<\/p>\n<p> The US and Canada provided the bulk of the growth in global LNG exports in 2025, reaching around 429 million tonnes. China and Japan remain the largest consumers, while Europe plans to completely phase out Russian gas from 2027.<\/p>\n<p> Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak admitted that Moscow&#8217;s plans to increase LNG production to 100 million tons per year and 20% of the global market were blocked by sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that US President Donald<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-kytay-i-rosiia-tramp-zaproponuvav-hlobalnyy-pererozpodil-sfer-vplyvu\/\">Trump has voiced the idea of a global redistribution of spheres of influence between the US, China and Russia<\/a> , changing the traditional American policy of containment. This implies a softer policy towards Beijing and possible recognition of Russia&#8217;s territorial acquisitions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/moskva-i-pekin-vykorystovuiut-prahnennia-trampa-do-uhod\/\">Russia and China are actively taking advantage of Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to make quick deals<\/a> and are trying to weaken American alliances in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kytay-pereymaie-metody-kremlia-stvoriuie-siryy-flot-dlia-torhivli-hazom-iz-rf\/\">China has begun forming its own &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; of gas tankers<\/a> , which will allow the country to import Russian liquefied gas, which is under US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China received 22 shipments of Russian liquefied natural gas from sanctioned projects in 2025. This indicates that US and EU sanctions have not affected supplies, and Beijing plans to increase them. This is reported by Reuters . According to analytical companies Kpler and LSEG, 22 batches of Russian LNG were delivered to the Chinese Beihai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":686228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1339610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}