As Russia’s war escalates, a look inside Ukraine and Russia
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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Can China Buy Russian Oil?
China and russia may share a border, but that border is extremely remote from everything that matters russia. Oil is normally shipped by pipe lines to ports where it's loaded on to super tankers. There's no sea route from russia, not a usual one from russia china. You can put it into tank cars and put it on railroads, but as there's only a handful of raillines,. It's 35 hundred iles from moscow to bejing. So just logistically, trying to make china the market for russia's oil doesn't work very well.
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