With Sino-US relations increasingly uncertain, China reduced its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US from 11% in 2021 to around 4% in 2023 and in March 2025 — days before US President Donald Trump launched his tariff regime — Beijing cut off LNG imports from the US altogether Over the same period China has substantially increased its imports of LNG from Russia’s main production area on the Gulf of Ob