“Building the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline from Russia to China is a rational decision that would have made sense even before the war, but the project will never be able to replace Russia’s decimated gas trade with Europe,” Sergey Vakulenko, an independent energy analyst and consultant to a number of Russian and international global oil and gas companies, says in anarticle for Carnegie Endowment for international peace, asking if China and replace the EU to buy Russian gas. Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia used to sell over 150bn cubic metres of gas annually to Western countries, earn…