{"id":260763,"date":"2026-08-23T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260763\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:35:18","slug":"see-how-china-weathered-the-iran-oil-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260763\/","title":{"rendered":"See How China Weathered the Iran Oil Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\">A sharp decrease in China\u2019s oil imports has been pivotal to keeping oil prices down since the start of the war in <a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a>. That, in turn, has helped curb inflation and <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/china-is-propping-up-the-world-economy-by-importing-a-lot-less-oil-f12d7813?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">support the global economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e13wjo0r2 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"18\">How China slashed imports by nearly 50% and survived has been a mystery, even with Beijing\u2019s <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china-has-spent-years-preparing-for-the-iran-oil-crisis-b0ff5577?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">long-term strategy of energy self-reliance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sharp decrease in China\u2019s oil imports has been pivotal to keeping oil prices down since the start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[488,178,328,71744,5964,262,5977,2165,5961,71743,71755,5962,19461,19455,71748,1822,71745,5955,71747,52904,52906,27222,47501,19453,154,2276,5963,5978,911,897,5966,71746,5953,46346,19462,71754,34,71750,71751,71752,71753,17725,207,71749,49,857,213,5954,5965,5967],"class_list":["post-260763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-business","tag-business-consumer-services","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-china","tag-commodity","tag-commodity-markets","tag-commodity-financial-market-news","tag-computer-services","tag-consumer-services","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-corporate-industry-imports","tag-crude-oil-markets","tag-data-services","tag-developing-economies","tag-dragonfly-asia-pacific","tag-dragonfly-middle-east","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-east-asia","tag-economic-news","tag-emerging-market-countries","tag-energy","tag-energy-markets","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-market-news","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gas","tag-gcapi","tag-greater-china","tag-hard-commodities","tag-hard-commodities-markets","tag-industrial-news","tag-industry-imports","tag-iran","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260822000506","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003827735","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003827735","tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003827735","tag-marketing","tag-markets","tag-markets-marketing","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-oil","tag-oil-gas","tag-synd","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}