Chinese to Explore Iraq’s Oil and Gas
May 13th, 2024
Via GeoPolitics in South Asia, a report on Chinese interest in Iraq’s petroleum assets: According to Reuters, Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday in a licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration that was primarily aimed at ramping up gas production for domestic use. An Iraqi Kurdish company also […]
Read more »Malaysia’s Appetite For Oil and Gas Puts It On Collision Course With China
May 12th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Malaysia which – as reserves closer to shore run dry – is venturing farther into disputed waters of the South China Sea claimed and patrolled by China: In the open sea off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, industrial rigs extract massive amounts of oil and gas that […]
Read more »Power of Siberia 2: Close Deal or Re-Route?
May 11th, 2024
Via Asia Times, a look at the geopolitics surrounding the Power of Siberia 2 as China debates how alternate Kazakhstan gas route affects Mongolia route plan: A plan to transit Russian natural gas to China via Kazakhstan has recently triggered a hot debate among Chinese pundits over the fate of the long-discussed Power of Siberia […]
Read more »China’s Billions Help Xi Make Useful Friends in Eastern Europe
May 8th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on China’s growing business relationships with Serbia and Hungary: It’s 10 a.m. and the high-speed train leaves Belgrade’s new, glass-and-steel station right on time. Thirty-six minutes later it pulls into Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad, the first completed section of a 350 kilometer-long (217 mile) upgrade going up to […]
Read more »East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse
May 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at East Asia’s coming population collapse and how it will reshape world politics and regional economies: In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about to enter into an […]
Read more »China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Construction to Begin in October
May 7th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway for which construction is to begin in October, a railway that Kyrgyzstan hopes will make it “a transit country for the world”: Construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway will begin in October, according to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov. Speaking during a working trip to Osh on May […]
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