For months, anti-China voices asked:
“How long can China survive without Iranian oil?”
Now The New York Post now says Chinese crude imports fell nearly 40% below the 2025 average, cutting roughly 4 million barrels per day of demand — equal to the combined oil consumption of Germany and France.
That helped offset the supply shock from the Iran conflict and Hormuz disruption.
So the real question is:
How long could the world have survived Trump’s war if China had not reduced its oil demand?
Trump started the fire.
Iran shipped oil once restrictions eased.
But China’s reduced buying helped keep the market from exploding.
The world keeps pretending China is the risk.
Then every crisis quietly reveals that China is also the stabilizer.