Recently, I came across this chart. It compares China’s 2025, 2026, and the 10 year average oil imports in millions of barrels per day. After the Strait of Hormuz crisis in March, there was a dramatic decline in their oil imports, cutting over 5.5mb/d (the largest amount any country has ever stopped importing oil!).
Source: https://www.api.org/energy-insights/charts-analysis/china-crude-imports-have-declined
I believe this chart was created by a human designer rather than generated by AI. There doesn’t seem to be any obvious logical errors or missing elements, and the chart is based off of real world data. While it is possible that the data was entered into a system and the chart was automatically generated, I believe the underlying data was entered in by a person, and that the chart was either designed, analyzed, or reviewed by a human. It seems more likely to be human created or at least human reviewed rather than fully AI generated.
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