{"id":74532,"date":"2025-10-01T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/taiwan-biggest-importer-russian-naphtha-despite-ukraine-ally-report"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:30:55","slug":"taiwan-now-biggest-importer-of-russian-naphtha-despite-being-ukraine-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74532","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan now biggest importer of Russian naphtha despite being Ukraine ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island imported $1.3bn of crude oil product in first half of 2025 despite joining sanctions against Moscow, report finds<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has become the world\u2019s biggest importer of Russian naphtha, a petroleum derivative used to make chemicals needed for the semiconductor industry, despite the fact that it has joined other sanctions against Russia and considers itself an ally of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2025, Taiwan imported $1.3bn worth of Russian naphtha, and average monthly imports reached a level nearly six times higher than the 2022 average, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/energyandcleanair.org\/publication\/taiwan-becomes-worlds-largest-importer-of-russian-naphtha\/\">a report<\/a> published on Wednesday. Compared to the first half of 2024, Taiwan\u2019s naphtha imports this year increased by 44%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/01\/taiwan-biggest-importer-russian-naphtha-despite-ukraine-ally-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island imported $1.3bn of crude oil product in first half of 2025 despite joining sanctions against Moscow, report findsTaiwan has become the world\u2019s biggest importer of Russian naphtha, a petroleum derivative used to make chemicals needed for the semi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,419,74,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532\/revisions\/74551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}