After 10 years of negotiations, China and Russia have made a major deal to import natural gas from Russia to China by pipeline.
The gas will be sent through a new eastern pipeline that has yet to be built.
As Joe Weisenthal, executive editor at Business Insider tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson, this is a big deal for Russia, given European sanctions over its intervention in Ukraine.
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- Joe Weisenthal, executive editor at Business Insider. He tweets@TheStalwart.
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