China is the world’s second-largest consumer and the world’s top importer of crude oil. In the face of adversity, is its economy likely to slow down? Crude oil prices ended slightly higher yesterday after a volatile session, caught between weakening demand in China and the prospect, closer than ever, of a European embargo on Russian oil imports. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more In the economic capital of Shanghai, where more than 25 million inhabitants have been locked up for a month, anyone who tests positive for coronavirus is sent to a quarantine center, even if they are asy…