Chinese-style globalization: prospects and risks
The topic of the PRC as a new leader of globalization leader keeps appearing on the pages of popular and specialized economic publications. How justified are Beijing’s ambitions?
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Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XIV
The announcement of the Chinese-Thai plan to begin construction of the “Thai Canal” through the Kra Isthmus led to an abrupt escalation in terrorist activity and in the military-political situation around the canal route both in Thailand itself, and in the adjacent area of the Andaman Sea.
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XIII
The principal trade routes between China and the Middle East, Africa, and Europe pass through the Indian Ocean. The key “bottle neck” of the Chinese maritime cargo transit is the Strait of Malacca
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XII
In order to successfully conduct the above-described anti-communist (most importantly, anti-Chinese) project, the CIA bought out CAT (Civil Air Transport), a private airline. The CIA began to use it widely to transport combat units and weapons in Indochina, as well as for drug trafficking. This activity began during the Korean War (1950-53), and it quickly expanded, reaching its peak during the Vietnam War.
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XI
Will China be successful in overcoming Pakistan’s doubts about whom to build strategic relations with in the future? Everything here depends on how badly China needs Pakistan, and what importance China assigns to using Iranian petroleum resources. The issue is also in the fact that China made an ambitious bid on its concept of the New Great Silk Road, and it cannot lose this bid without losing face. At this time, China has found itself on the brink of failure on one of the directions of the “New Silk Road”.
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part X
As recently as 15 years ago, Gwadar was a small fishing village at the entrance to the Gulf of Oman, on the shore of the Arabian Sea, about 60km from the Iranian border. And then came the Chinese-Pakistani initiative to create a deep seaport here.
Escalation of Global Gas War. Part IX
Some analysts have immediately began to question why the oil and gas dependence of Europe on Iran is better than the same dependence on Russia. What are the benefits? But their voices – so far! – are not really heard
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part VIII
International experience shows that the kind of assistance Turkmenistan requested in 2015 from the United States never goes without a large ‘landing’ of American specialists, including private military companies.
Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part VII
After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that negotiations between Russia and the EU over the “South Stream” through the Black Sea to Bulgaria had reached a dead end, and he referred to the “Turkish Stream” through Turkey to Greece as an alternative, the European Commission briefly went into a state of shock. There were even declarations that Russia’s unilateral termination of the negotiations was illegal; therefore, negotiations over the “South Stream” are still in progress.
Escalation of the Global “Gas War”. Part VI
There is speculation that the entire project of the European Energy Union is actually directed at creating a preferential environment in Europe for American shale gas and for American petroleum corporations, as well as for the construction of American nuclear power plants and for shipments of American nuclear fuel
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