CCP Reselling Russian Gas to Make Europe Reliant

Logos of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are displayed at a news conference on the company's interim results in Hong Kong, China, March 23, 2017. Bobby Yip/Reuters

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reselling energy supplies from Russia to Europe in a bid to increase its influence.

Since the Chinese and Russian leaders met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in early September, a series of moves show that Beijing and Moscow have strengthened their energy cooperation.