4 May 2024
ANALYSIS: US-China trade deal enters fantasy realm with absurd energy targets
Publication date: 16 January 2020
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The government of China has signed up to absurdly ambitious purchases of US energy products under a vaunted phase one US-China trade deal that will prove both extremely challenging to realise and, if achieved, highly disruptive to global energy flows, numerous analysts and observers said this week. The deal, which envisages China buying USD 52.4 billion-worth of US coal, oil and LNG over the next two years, would severely test the capacities of ...