China Used Russian Oil and Reserves to Ride Out Hormuz Crisis, Moscow Says

🛢️ BEIJING — China's Hormuz immunity is exactly what makes the blockade leak. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: If Beijing absorbed the Hormuz shock without rationing, it means the blockade's coercive reach stops at China's border — and China kept buying Iranian oil throughout. Every barrel Moscow and Beijing routed around the strait is pressure the US strategy failed to apply. Washington's blockade squeezes allies and neutral importers hardest; the one rival it most needs to constrain is the one least affected.