Trump has often said that purchasing oil from Russia has helped keep the war in Ukraine going. Many times, he and his team have directly accused India of “funding Russia’s war.”
While US President Donald Trump has maintained a strong stance against India for purchasing Russian oil, he doesn’t seem to have the same problem with China. During his much-talked-about meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Trump said that the topic of oil did not come up at all. “We didn’t really discuss the oil,” Trump said. “We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished.”
Since there was no real pressure put on Beijing, oil will likely remain a key source of revenue for Vladimir Putin’s war. This comes even after Trump introduced his first sanctions on Russia last week, targeting state-owned oil company Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, the country’s largest oil producers.
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