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title: "Emerging market countries seek to hedge the oil dollar system with China's new energy"
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description: "Emerging market countries are seeking China's new energy as a solution to hedge against the oil dollar system under the pressure of high oil prices and a strong dollar. India urgently purchased 60 million barrels of crude oil from Russia, indicating its dependence on external energy. China's new energy vehicle exports saw significant growth earlier this year, becoming key for emerging markets to withstand the dollar cycle and fossil energy inflation. Goldman Sachs' research indicates that rising oil prices will exacerbate global inflation and may lead to GDP decline and currency devaluation risks"
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# Emerging market countries seek to hedge the oil dollar system with China's new energy

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· Automobile Shisan Hang ID: wzhauto2023 ·

**On March 25, India urgently** purchased 60 million barrels of crude oil from Russia. The geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has disrupted traditional crude oil shipping and supply chains, forcing economies that heavily rely on external energy to seek emergency hedges.

Since February 25, influenced by the potential disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, Brent crude oil quickly surpassed $112 per barrel in early March, and by the end of the month, both Brent and WTI crude oil were consolidating at high levels around $100 and $88, respectively; at the same time, the Federal Reserve's interest rate expectations and market risk aversion have solidly supported the US dollar index above 99.

In this process, oil and the dollar have directly reset the asset logic of global trade. The World Trade Organization expects that the growth rate of global goods trade will significantly shrink to 1.9% by 2026. Against the backdrop of a contraction in traditional high-energy-consuming industries and non-essential consumer goods trade, energy transition products centered on electric vehicles, batteries, and power generation equipment have become the core incremental engine against the trend. From January to February this year, China's exports of new energy vehicles surged by 110% year-on-year, with monthly growth rates in emerging markets such as Latin America, the Middle East, and ASEAN even exceeding three digits.

For non-oil-producing emerging economies lacking pricing power, high oil prices and a strong dollar mean accelerated foreign exchange outflow and uncontrollable imported inflation. Under this extreme pressure, China's new energy vehicles and the "vehicle-light-storage" industrial chain behind them have risen to become a hedging solution for emerging market countries against the dollar cycle and fossil energy inflation.

01

**Geopolitical games force emerging market countries to break free from absolute dependence on oil**

Goldman's latest research report shows that the daily average gap in oil flow from the Persian Gulf has reached 17.6 million barrels, accounting for 17% of global supply, setting a historical record. For non-oil-producing emerging economies, this cliff-like supply shock has completely exposed their systemic vulnerabilities. According to Goldman's macro estimation model, a 10% increase in oil prices will raise the overall global inflation level by 0.2 percentage points. If the supply disruption lasts for 60 days, global GDP will face a drag of 0.9%, and prices will jump by 1.7%.

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Soaring oil prices are often accompanied by a strong dollar cycle, requiring countries to consume a large amount of precious foreign exchange reserves to import high-priced energy. On one hand, high oil prices quickly deplete foreign exchange reserves; on the other hand, they further depreciate the domestic currency and even risk sovereign debt default. As Goldman stated in its report, emerging market currencies are facing downward pressure amid the oil shock. In this context, breaking free from absolute dependence on fossil energy has transcended mere industrial upgrading considerations and has officially risen to a macroeconomic security strategy for these countries to defend their economic fundamentals ![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://inews.gtimg.com/om_bt/O94AXmhshqsjBGWDxAqg91J2sUDQ5U8lnIkSufteAZRfwAA/641?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg)

Goldman Sachs estimates that by the fourth quarter of 2027, crude oil prices will reach a high of $110 per barrel. At that time, high oil prices will directly penetrate the cost of using fuel vehicles. Under the rigid constraint of rising living costs, the economic calculations of daily expenditures will be infinitely magnified, directly transforming into reasons for purchase, achieving a necessary replacement for the local fuel vehicle ecosystem. When China's new energy vehicles enter these markets with more advantageous usage costs, they will skip the market education phase and significantly shorten the introduction cycle of new energy vehicles in overseas sinking markets.

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The uncontrollable risks of external oil prices objectively create a huge demand gap for Chinese car companies in the vast emerging markets. Customs data shows that from 2020 to 2025, China's new energy vehicle exports will surge from 223,000 units to 2.615 million units, achieving more than an 11-fold increase in volume over five years. Behind this growth curve is not only the outward expansion of China's supply chain competitiveness but also the acceleration of external geopolitical games driving the output of China's new energy vehicle production capacity.

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Goldman Sachs' research report mentions that the export map of China's new energy vehicles will strategically tilt towards "low-income emerging economies that cannot afford large fiscal subsidies" and "oil-importing countries." In these markets, which are extremely sensitive to energy prices and lack national fiscal buffers, Chinese new energy vehicles have become a rigid hard currency to resist external energy inflation risks.

02

**China's New Energy is Expanding Globally**

By 2025, China's new energy vehicle exports will reach 3.43 million units, a year-on-year increase of 70%, accounting for 41% of total exports; in January-February 2026, new energy vehicle exports have reached 583,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 110%. After sorting through the data, the Automotive Thirteen Industry found that China's new energy vehicle exports have established a basic market in four core regions: Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Notably, in the incremental structure of 2026, emerging markets are showing astonishing momentum, with exports to Latin America surging 1610% year-on-year and exports to ASEAN growing 140% year-on-year.

![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://inews.gtimg.com/om_bt/OOR4FKbh1Uxn0WDesF2qYKXUwI3aNDQQ5F-BxoRjnJR3AAA/641?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) Currently, the daily crude oil flow gap in the Persian Gulf reaches as high as 17.6 million barrels, with emerging economies being the most affected. At the same time, persistently high energy costs have further worsened the trade conditions for oil-importing countries. Countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, driven by deep anxieties over national energy security and dwindling foreign exchange reserves, have seen the demand for Chinese new energy products rise from consumption upgrades to a safe haven.

For a long time, low-income countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been firmly locked at the bottom of the global automotive industry chain, becoming dumping grounds for second-hand fuel vehicles discarded by Japan, South Korea, and Europe and the United States. The influx of Chinese new energy vehicles has achieved a dimensional reduction attack in these markets. Chinese car companies are not competing with multinational car companies on the existing internal combustion engine track but are directly launching a new generation of models into these blank markets, delivering a dimensional reduction attack on the local old fuel vehicle ecosystem.

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In addition, while Chinese companies are exporting complete vehicles to markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, which have almost blank new energy infrastructure, they are also intensively laying out a network of charging and swapping interfaces based on Chinese standards, localized evolution of underlying protocols for the Internet of Vehicles, and an after-sales service system led by Chinese core suppliers.

Once the electrification penetration rate in the target countries crosses a critical point, both the hardware facilities and software ecosystem will be guided by the Chinese system. This dual lock-in at the consumer end and ecological level essentially seizes the definition rights of the next-generation transportation infrastructure in the region, significantly increasing the costs and barriers for other multinational car companies attempting to re-enter the market and localize transformation in the future.

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Therefore, do not underestimate the land-grabbing nature of Chinese cars going overseas; it is no longer just a single manufacturer loading complete vehicles onto roll-on/roll-off ships, but rather a comprehensive landing of the entire industrial chain cluster, including architecture, three electrics, complete vehicles, energy replenishment, and infrastructure overseas. By establishing localized factories and deep supporting supply chains in core hub countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Brazil, the Chinese new energy industry is completing the leap from trade penetration to industrial rooting.

03

**Microgrids** **are** **the first step to avoiding the hegemony of oil dollars**

The Thirteen Car Industry noted that Goldman Sachs' research report specifically lists electric vehicles, batteries, and power generation equipment together.

Low-income emerging economies not only face an input crisis of crude oil due to high oil prices but are also constrained by backward and extremely fragile national centralized power grids. If only single complete vehicles are exported to these countries, the local power infrastructure cannot support the large-scale charging demand, and industrial penetration will inevitably hit a ceiling early on.

![Image](https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://inews.gtimg.com/om_bt/OrKks1mgxA3lm0ujCElyp1MV49x_OxTgk2uchauW-TfbsAA/641?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg) The solution provided by China's new energy industry chain for the "vehicle - light - storage" integrated microgrid is to enable electric vehicles to also serve as mobile energy storage units that maintain the operation of local microgrids and achieve peak shaving and valley filling. This Chinese solution, which breaks away from reliance on large centralized power grids, is the ultimate weapon to truly open up the infrastructure barriers in emerging markets.

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As the business model of China's new energy going overseas undergoes a qualitative change, the core indicators for measuring the growth rate and scale of overseas expansion will shift from the single "complete vehicle export volume" to the total amount of systematic orders for "complete vehicles + light storage charging equipment." Chinese automotive companies and their supply chains are transforming from "manufacturers" to "energy infrastructure service providers." Goldman Sachs predicts a structural leap of over 30% annually after 2027.

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Under the traditional fossil energy framework, oil-importing countries must endure uncontrollable "recurring dollar consumption" during periods of high crude oil prices. When these countries introduce China's "vehicle - light - storage" system, they can transform this bottomless consumption into relatively controllable "one-time fixed asset investments" for purchasing new energy infrastructure. This conversion fundamentally cuts off the vicious cycle of input countries being repeatedly drained by high oil prices and dollar hegemony.

The independence of the underlying energy architecture will hedge against the financial settlement system of "petrodollars." In this process, cross-border settlement in RMB or barter trade based on bulk commodities will naturally follow, and it is not ruled out that key minerals may be directly exchanged for Chinese new energy equipment and infrastructure. This not only physically addresses the energy shortages in developing countries but also provides a substantial safety net for emerging economies to bypass the dollar system at the macro-financial level. Thus, the overseas expansion of China's new energy industry chain has completely completed a system-level strategic deepening that transcends the dimension of commodity trade.

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