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not sure what your point is...
I am sure you can find similar headlines with  dozen or so other countries.

I'd trump this in any case by this non-headline: 100% of China's oil imports use maritime routes controlled by the US Navy...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sun Jul 17th, 2005 at 01:15:36 PM EST
Is that so?

Pax


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by soj on Sun Jul 17th, 2005 at 01:39:38 PM EST
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soj, pleass do not forget I have almost no internet access currently (this is written on my phone), so please use quotes rather than links if you can...

That said, I could access your link and will comment as such:

  • this is about the third "final" decision on an itinerary by the Russians, so I will not hold my breath...

  • as a consequence, the pipe is far from built and unlikely to provide oil to China before a nimber of years (the same holds true for the Kazakhstan to China pipe which also benefits from big announcements and signatures every now and then). So China will keep on receiving some volumes of oil from Russia by railcars for the foreseeable future, and the rest is, well, premature to count on.

So yes, the Chinese are scared to death about their oil dependency, which is why they have actually been really quiet on the international front (apart from their still awkward attempts at couring other oil producers around the world...).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sun Jul 17th, 2005 at 04:29:39 PM EST
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