Foreign Investment In Turkmenistan’s Petroleum Sector
August 26th, 2019
Via Eurasia.net, commentary on Turkmenistan: State newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan this week divulged some interesting and closely guarded information about the level of foreign investment into the nation’s energy sector. According to an article published on August 14, Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas has invested at least $11 billion. China’s CNPC has invested more than $8 billion in the past […]
Read more »China Looks West To Solve Energy Riddle
August 26th, 2019
Via The Petroleum Economist, an article on how Chinese NOCs are forging ahead with challenging ultra-deep drilling and shale projects in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, underlining the far western province’s potential importance to the country’s drive to meet ambitious energy security plans: PetroChina, one of China’s ‘big three’ NOCs, completed Luntan 1, Asia’s deepest well at […]
Read more »Chinese CNPC-led Group Discovers New Oil Field in South Sudan
August 24th, 2019
Via S&P Global, a report on a new oil field find in South Sudan: A consortium led by China’s state-run CNPC has made a new oil discovery in South Sudan’s northeastern Upper Nile state with more than 300 million barrels of recoverable oil, the country’s oil minister Awow Daniel Chuang said Tuesday. An exploration well […]
Read more »Why the Middle East Is Betting on China
August 23rd, 2019
Via Project Syndicate, a report on how long Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East – which is highly transactional, focusing on energy and economics, and avoiding sensitive geopolitical issues – can be sustained: Middle Eastern leaders seem to be in a race to gain favor with China. While the region buzzes with criticism of […]
Read more »Afghanistan: Radical Economic Planning Needed
August 23rd, 2019
Via The Frontier Post, commentary on Afghanistan’s economic woes: In most of modern history Afghanistan has been a less developed economy, at some instances more underdeveloped than others, the problems with the Afghan economy, despite being home to rare mineral deposits that are worth trillions of dollars according to US surveys, is that it is […]
Read more »All May Not Be Smooth Along China’s Digital Silk Road
August 21st, 2019
Via The Lowy Institute, commentary on the digital Silk Road: Make no mistake about China’s vast and continuous trajectory of technological expansionism. Even as the US aims to ring-fence Huawei’s reach into the US and overseas consumer markets, a “digital silk road” paved by Chinese tech giants has long been built to span from the Asia-Pacific to […]
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