🔴 El PLAN de Rusia para reemplazar a Europa por China

Russia wants and needs to replace Europe as the main buyer of gas after That Brussels would impose sanctions on Moscow and Senegal would pay in rubles And that is where China comes in a country that has not joined the sanctions imposed by The West in turn seeks to take advantage of the special price they are offering from the Kremlin It seems a priori that both powers could understand each other and become great Commercial partners especially at a time when both face a difficult relationship with the West But not everything is so easy Strengthening energetic bonds can take years The clearest example is the Power of Siberia-1 a 3 000-kilometer pipeline capable of Send gas from Siberia to Shanghai The state energy companies Gazprom of Russia and China National Petroleum Corp are doing it They have been building it for 8 years and it is still not completely finished However the conflict in Ukraine has accelerated all processes as shown by the numbers Before February Russia was sending up to 5 billion cubic meters per year through this pipeline But now deliveries have increased by more than 60% and the idea is to fully utilize the capacity by 2023 But as we mentioned earlier replacing Europe with China is not so easy for Russia at least in the short term In fact even if Beijing decided to fully utilize this only available pipeline It is also insufficient as it can only transport about 60 billion cubic meters of gas per year Meanwhile the pipes connecting Russia to Europe have a capacity of almost 150 million cubic meters This is explained by Alicia García Guerrero Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Atixis The existing network capacity between Russia and China is limited This means that the gas Putin cannot or does not want to sell in Europe still cannot go to China In this new scenario obviously Putin is not sitting with his arms crossed and is already looking to the future From the Russian energy giant Gazprom the construction of several gas pipelines is being evaluated to allow it to expand its presence in the Asian market One of the most notable projects is the Power of Siberia II This new pipeline could transport another 50 billion cubic meters to the Asian giant Natural gas cubic meters per year and it is also believed that it could connect to the pipelines that connect Russia to Europe The Power of Siberia I pipeline is not connected to the pipeline that sends gas to Europe whic It means that it cannot divert what it produces to another side This will change when Power of Siberia II is built or at least that is the plan In concrete terms what Russia aims to achieve with these two operational pipelines is to have a gas shipping capacity of approximately 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year However the investment in Power of Siberia II will be costly as it is a pipeline Very extensive requiring great complexity in its design Pablo Gil is the chief strategist for the broker XTV in Spain and Latin America He explains in a conversation with the BBC It is a new infrastructure in which Russia will have to invest a lot It is a process that I believe is intended for 2027 the date on whic Europe has set itself the goal of ending all its reliance on Russian fossil fuel consumption When that moment comes Russia wants to have the necessary infrastructure built to have other customers buy energy from it as it is its main source of income But besides all this there are other geopolitical reasons at play that need to be seen how they are resolved One of them is that in the face of Western sanctions and in addition to the energy market Russia also It needs to get close to China to import key supplies such as semiconductors which are even necessary in the military industry Another is that although it is not necessary in practical terms Vladimir Putin wants the Power or Siberia II pipeline to pass through Mongolia Why would Russia make this complicated move It is believed that this strategy would help the Kremlin strengthen economic ties with its neighbor From the southeast seeking that it in turn does not tilt so much toward the west As we can see not everything is business it's also geopolitics and in that arena only interests play The fact is that for better or worse everything indicates that Russia will no longer look westward but toward Asia