The other day, I was chatting with one of China’s oil and gas people-let’s call him Ooh Hyun-who was at pains to tell me (and the world we watch) that his country does not deserve the bad press it gets these days.In fact, sitting on a verandah overlooking the port of Hainan, one of his country’s leading gateways for the import of oil and natural gas, Ooh raised his hands in a gesture that could be interpreted as one of despair.“I find it hard to understand why people are not talking about those countries with a high level of consumption and imports threatening the world’s oil security but who say, on the contrary, that our low level of consumption and imports...