I’ve seen different perspectives say its either a winning strategy ( they stand to alienate little brother Europe from daddy US, and possibly make them dependent on US natural gas ), or that its a losing strategy ( that in the long term it will only stand to unite China, Russia, India, etc more closely, contribute to de-dollarization, etc)
Do you think the west’s strategy is sound, or are they merely making mistakes typical of dying empires?
Yep, that along with the Junggar Basin which IIRC is in the top three crude oil producers in the country. Xinjiang’s up there with Heilongjiang and Shandong in oil production.
80% was probably way too much of an overestimate though, I incorrectly recalled seeing that number to describe it before. Nobody’s put together a formal list on which provinces produce the most amount of oil since 2012, so I don’t have any actual percentages on hand.