I think it's quite different. Gas can be understood as being sold by Country A to Country B (instead of business to business or business to consumer). Yes, ther

I think it's quite different. Gas can be understood as being sold by Country A to Country B (instead of business to business or business to consumer). Yes, there might be private firms involved, but Country A can stop the gas on a moment's notice if so desired. Also, there's likely no substitute for this gas in the midterm (months? years to get 3 new nuclear plants?). Finally, in terms of "responsibility", this was decided by the German government, not just by individual consumers / businesses that decided to buy more from Russia. The commercial relationship between the USA and China is much different. First, it consists of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers: it's not so easy to stop the flow (you can ban some of it, but there are workarounds). For many of those goods, there will be substitutes. Finally, this wasn't something explicitly decided by the USA government.