Three tankers carrying more than 2 million barrels of Russian oil are floating in the waters off the coast of east China and cannot be unloaded after the United States imposed new sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies on Friday, 10 January.
Because China trades a lot with the US and the EU (the EU is doing similar things). If US (and EU) get mad enough at China they will cut off all trade - everyone will hurt from this, but China probably the most (depending on how follows of course).
Dumb question: why does china care about US sanctions?
The port operators don’t want to be sanctioned, because it would mean losing US business.
Because China trades a lot with the US and the EU (the EU is doing similar things). If US (and EU) get mad enough at China they will cut off all trade - everyone will hurt from this, but China probably the most (depending on how follows of course).