Russia energy exports

With the exit of European partners and buyers, Russia is looking to China and India to get its Arctic energy projects off the ground. 

The consistency and reliability of Asian buyers of Russian oil, LNG, and coal are the most important factor granting Moscow strategic space in the face of Western mobilization.

Russia’s rising energy trade with Asia – including China and India – masks underlying problems, including artificially low prices and maxed-out infrastructure.

With the prospect of further disruptions from the war to energy supplies, South Korea should take a serious look at its own energy vulnerabilities.

On paper, Japan and Russia have complementary economies. In reality, trade and investment ties have been hard to forge.

As COVID-19 fundamentally disrupts the energy market, Russia’s economic reliance on China deepens without much prospect for future growth.

Russia looks to gain an advantage from the glut of infrastructure projects in Pakistan, Iran, and India.

Russia’s oil ties with China are deepening but markets, not politics, drive the evolving relationship.

Eastern Europe is diversifying its energy suppliers away from Russia, and toward Iran.

The logic behind Moscow's economic outreach to Pyongyang.

"The United States should not underestimate China’s ability to achieve energy security within the next two decades."