{"id":258266,"date":"2025-12-30T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258266\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:50:18","slug":"chinas-lng-imports-plunge-under-weak-economy-and-us-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258266\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s LNG imports plunge under weak economy and US friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Decline looms over new projects coming onstream<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251215 china lng\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A drone view shows tugboats assisting a liquified natural gas (LNG) tanker to dock at a port in Yantai, in China&#8217;s Shandong province,\u00a0in February. (cnsphoto via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>SHOTARO TANI<\/p>\n<p>December 30, 2025 14:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China&#8217;s imports of liquefied natural gas have plunged in 2025 amid a weak economy and trade tensions with the U.S., which led to Beijing stopping imports of American fuel for most of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Decline looms over new projects coming onstream A drone view shows tugboats assisting a liquified natural gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,16268,179,18,35056,19,31763,17,47615,760,107,124179],"class_list":{"0":"post-258266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chinas","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-friction","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-lng","17":"tag-plunge","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-weak"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115809316147730024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}