China Winning the Race for Central Asia’s Energy Riches
June 30th, 2011
Via the CleanTechies blog, a report on how China is presently winning the race for Central Asia’s energy riches: Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspian and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia is facing the U.S. rather than the British empire. To a […]
Read more »Laos
May 21st, 2011
Via Agence-France Presse, an interesting article on Chinese investment in Laos. As the report notes: The language is Chinese, change is given in yuan and the time is set for Beijing — but the Boten casino is in Laos, not China. This impoverished country is overrun by investments from the more powerful neighbors that surround […]
Read more »China-Uzbekistan: Gas diplomacy
April 26th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on recent Chinese and Uzbekistan discussions over natural resources. As the article notes: “…China has taken another step to loosen Russia’s stranglehold on central Asian gas supplies after winning an offer from Uzbekistan to double the amount of gas it has promised to supply. Uzbekistan has already committed […]
Read more »China – Turkmen Energy Deal
March 5th, 2011
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), interesting analysis of issues surrounding negotiations between Turkmenistan and China over an expanded natural gas supply and loan agreement. As the article notes: “…Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister Baymyrat Hojamuhammedov said March 3 that Turkmenistan and China are still negotiating an expansion of a natural gas supply and loan agreement. This […]
Read more »Kazakhstan Embraces Chinese Investment
February 26th, 2011
Via The Financial Times, a look at the expanding relationship between China and Kazakhstan: “…Kazakhstan announced billions of dollars in deals with China on Tuesday, underlining central Asia’s gradual shift away from Moscow and towards Beijing. Meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao signed a series […]
Read more »China And Mongolia: An Uneasy Relationship
February 13th, 2011
Via The East Asia Forum, a report on the uneasy economic relationship between China and Mongolia. As the article notes: “…The investment and trading relationships between China and Mongolia seems like a marriage made in heaven. Landlocked and poverty-stricken, Mongolia has an abundance of coal, copper and iron ore that China craves to feed its […]
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