China Plays Increasing role In Venezuela’s Economy
July 13th, 2012
Via the Miami Herald, a very interesting look at China’s increasing role in Venezuela’s economy: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution, which has seized billions of dollars in assets from western oil companies in the name of national sovereignty, is gradually giving control of its industry to China, a country that plays an increasingly dominating […]
Read more »Where To Locate Your China Retail? Wake Up And Smell The Coffee…
July 13th, 2012
Via The China Law blog, an interesting article on potential connection between the number of Starbucks (and even other coffee shops) and the “readiness” of that Chinese cities for Western companies, at least Western retail companies: For many years here in Seattle, a newish/smallish coffee chain called Seattle’s Best Coffee (SBC) was said to choose […]
Read more »Pax-Sinica: Why The U.S. Should Hand Over Afghanistan And Central Asia To China
June 29th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy’s Oil & Glory, a provocative piece on Afghanistan and China’s role therein: In northern Afghanistan, a potentially rich, U.S.-backed oil and gas tender is under way this week. Central to hopes for a face-saving force withdrawal in two years, the competition is part of a U.S. strategy of initiating a vibrant, self-sustaining […]
Read more »North Korea’s Growing Trade Dependency on China: Mixed Strategic Implications
June 17th, 2012
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, a report on the complex relationship between China and North Korea: North Korean workers nap on piles of fertilizer shipped from China on the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju (Jacky Chen/courtesy Reuters) North Korea’s trade dependency on China has skyrocketed in the past […]
Read more »China May Fund Cambodia-Vietnam Rail
June 13th, 2012
Via the Phnom Phenh Post, a report that China may fund a Cambodia-Vietnam rail line. As the article notes: Cambodia was in discussions with the Chinese government on funding for a 250-kilometre stretch of rail line between Phnom Penh and Vietnam, in what Cambodian officials yesterday called a move away from a “complicated” Asian Development […]
Read more »China’s Pipeline From Myanmar Under Pressure
May 8th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a look at the challenges related to the planned Chinese pipeline from Myanmar’s west coast to China: In late February, Burmese vice-president U Tin Aung Mying Oo led a ministerial delegation to Maday Island on Myanmar’s west coast, the starting point for two major pipelines that will carry oil and gas to […]
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