Events in the Middle East mean that China will have to stomach a higher import bill. But China’s economy is not especially dependent on oil and natural gas. And the country has large reserves that it can deploy to dampen the pass-through to domestic consumers. Meanwhile, an environment of higher global energy prices is one in which Chinese exporters will capture even greater market share.
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