Analysts are confounded that the severely negative impacts to China’s energy and food stocks have not materialized, after months of Middle East war.

But China was far better prepared to handle disruptions in key supply chains than most understood.

Energy shipments from the Persian Gulf to China continue, along with imports from Russia and Brazil.

China has also developed vast capacity in coal-to-liquids technologies, that allow for conversion of their massive coal reserves into fuel, plastics, and fertilizers.

That industry now yields millions of tons of liquefied coal products every year, and even allows for high volumes of urea exports to friendly countries.