The Wall Street Journal 1.2M Followers US has a big ask for China: Buy less oil from Russia, more from America China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. storage tanks at the container terminal in Hong Kong. © Bloomberg News Ahead of President Trump’s visit to Beijing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is considering putting a tricky trade-off on the agenda for coming talks with his Chinese counterpart: reducing China’s oil purchases from U.S. adversaries like Russia. In private consultations held in recent days with former U.S. officials, business executives and policy analysts, Bessent described a continuing effort to try to get China to instead buy American oil-and-gas products, said people familiar with the meetings. Bessent is thinking about raising the energy issue, the people said, in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng , in Paris in mid-March. They are planning to firm up a framework for the April summit between Trump and Chinese leade...