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For China, the question is whether its playbook has instead provoked the very hard-liners it was meant to circumvent.

It includes a complete halt to Russian LNG imports by the end of 2026 and measures against Moscow's shadow oil tanker fleet that the Kremlin uses to circumvent sanctions.

In recent years, Russia has become adept at circumventing Western penalties on its oil industry.

Because prediction markets circumvent sports-betting taxes and regulations, several state governments and tribal groups have criticized them.

The 27-nation bloc has already blacklisted hundreds of tankers used by Russia to help circumvent restrictions on its lucrative crude exports.