{
  "id": 477544,
  "title": "Beijing’s billion-barrel weapon: Why India must prepare for China-driven oil prices",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/beijings-billion-barrel-weapon-why-india-must-prepare-for-china",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-10T14:02:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/beijings-billion-barrel-weapon-why-india-must-prepare-for-china-driven-oil-prices/articleshow/133101573.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "China has accumulated as much as 1.4 billion barrels in strategic and enterprise-controlled inventories, according to a new RAND study. That is more than three times the roughly 413 million barrels held in the US government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}