Here's the thing, right? There are two clear underlying causes to all the major problems on earth. The first is overpopulation. Overpopulation means that there are too many people chasing after too many resources - energy, water, land etc. which...
Mark this moment. Oil hits record $100 a barrel | Markets | Hot Stocks | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a...
Asia Times reports on the $2bn China-Iran Yadaravan oil deal in the wake of the NIE estimate, and analyses the broader implications. With China's opinion being that the US is now waking up to Iran as a regional power, it...
Neat summary of Iran's political and commercial relationships with other nascent Asian powers. Includes some details on the IPI and Chinese economic influence. PINR - Iran Looks for Allies through Asian and Latin American Partnerships On the Asian continent, the...
Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil, was in Amsterdam today to talk on his conception of the impending energy crisis. While he was a good speaker, seeing him in person did begin to reveal some of the flaws in...
This bears out exactly what I said in my thesis. Guess I'm not that stupid after all. Perhaps under pressure from the US, India has already lost out to China with regard to Burmese energy: a pattern is emerging. Asia...
Exactly as I suggested in my thesis, Indian intransigence over the IPI may well be opening the door to China. Moreover, it's more than likely that the current state of emergency in Pakistan will wipe out the IPI deal once...
Abu Dhabi to set up $5bn refinery - DAWN - Top Stories; October 31, 2007 http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/31/top15.htm ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Abu Dhabi will set up an oil refinery in Gwadar at a cost of $5 billion, according to Pakistan’s ambassador to...
Finding a resolution to the crisis on the Turkish-Iraqi border has deep implications for many of the parties involved. Turkey in particular, with its ambitions to be viewed as a leading state in the Islamic world as well as its...
Wide ranging article covering the history of India's relations with its East Asian neighbours along with current concerns such as energy and security threats such as the Taiwan straits. PINR - India Rediscovering East Asia China has been increasing its...
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Gwadar Oil City: Pakistan, China to sign agreements in early 2008 During the forthcoming visit of Chinese president in early 2008, Pakistan and China are set to sign agreements on Chinese...
Well, if we ignore it it'll go away. Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as...
'Myanmar's "Saffron Revolution", like the Ukraine "Orange Revolution" or the Georgia "Rose Revolution" and the various color revolutions instigated in recent years against strategic states surrounding Russia, is a well-orchestrated exercise in Washington-run regime change, down to the details of...
Not much analysis on the political situation, but interesting to note that talks are ongoing regarding an electricity line from Iran to Gwadar. Though Pakistan has gas resources of its own, its power situation is currently rather bleak and so...
Sanctions. The answer to everything. Impose sanctions on Burma, the international community says, and everything will be fine. Wrong. One only has to look at the plight of Iraq in the 1990s to confirm that, under some circumstances, economic sanctions...
This one's going straight on my blogroll. PostGlobal is a collaboration between The Washington Post and Newsweek that analyses global trends - the fall of America, the rise of China, energy, Islam etc.. In short, it's basically just like my...
One of the most frustrating things about writing a thesis on contemporary international issues is that, once you have handed in the text, new developments occur and new information becomes available. This Economist Intelligence Unit brief on China and energy...
An extremely useful summary of China's energy relations with the Middle East - if only I'd had this while I was writing my thesis. Main point to note, highlighted in italics below, is that the big three - Saudi Arabia,...
Rising China, Shining India; the quagmire in the Persian Gulf and America’s Global War on Terror. These are some of the focal points of international politics in 2007, and none of them exist in isolation. For the giant populations of...
India will soon be the world’s fifth largest consumer of energy. And there is probably one major reason for this: aircon. Unless you have visited India in the summer months, you won’t appreciate the significance of aircon, but I certainly...
Not much need to comment on this, as Putin consolidates his control over the pipeline infrastructure. BBC NEWS | Business | Russian pipeline firms to merge Transneft, which carries 93% of Russian oil and supplies much of Europe, is to...
China, Pakistan team up on energy | csmonitor.com "I think most security experts are looking at this very closely because this is the closest access point China has to the Persian Gulf," says Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute...
Nothing new here, but worth a quick look. China's footprint in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times Gwadar would provide a more secure corridor for China's fuel and energy supplies in the face of instability in the Persian Gulf and also...
...but in battalions. A brace of articles on the Pakistan-Afghanistan al-Qaeda-Taliban nexus from Asia Times. Prospects of a 'united front' against Musharraf are particularly disturbing, since if Pakistan falls to a Taliban-style revolution or civil war, then the US, India...
Comprehensive analysis of Gwadar from Pakistani point of view. The News - International...
Just when I thought I had the most terribly original thesis topic, The Economist goes and hijacks it - even the title. At least it shows I'm onto something. It's impossible to disconnect the whole India-Pakistan-Afghanistan nexus, partly because Pakistan...
All you need to know. Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - Pakistan port opens new possibilities Some analysts see an operational Gwadar port as China's first foothold in the oil-rich Middle East, as well as providing road and...
Pervez Musharraf's sincere thanks to the Chinese FM. Associated Press of Pakistan - Chinese assistance helped realize dream of Gwadar Port: President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said the dream of the Gwadar Port was realized with China’s assistance and...
Today would be a good day to attack Gwadar, and the authorities know it. Reuters AlertNet - Pakistan steps up security ahead of port opening GWADAR, Pakistan, March 19 (Reuters) - Pakistan tightened security around a coastal town in Baluchistan...
It could well be a slip of the pen, but note the writer's words here. Pakistan's FM is pushing for the Karakoram pipeline as a "contingency plan". Contingency for what, exactly? And it shows the pipeline is still very much...
Not one but two articles in today's Asia Times highlight the difficult geopolitical position of Pakistan, sandwiched as it is between both Iran and Afghanistan. In the first, the author notes that the Balochistan issue is a common problem for...
Asia Times Online :: China Business News - China aims to diversify oil sources What has worried Chinese oil-security strategists in recent years is that most of the imported oil comes from the Middle East. Despite China's efforts to diversify...
Not quite as catchy as the 'Silk Road' Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business. China's ever expanding pipeline network has the potential to bring about a significant strategic realignment of...
Asia Times Online :: South Asia news : China-Pakistan rail link on horizon Beijing's involvement in several rail projects in Pakistan is motivated primarily by commercial considerations, but it also sees distinct advantages for its improved transportation and access to...
It's all about supply, demand and transit. At best the IPI is a potential solution to the Kashmir issue. But at worst it's yet another point of friction. Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Gas: Iran turns up...
The grand opening swiftly aproaches, and writers are beginning to consider the deeper geostrategic significance of Gwadar. yet we still don't really know that much about it. Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and...
Someone had to do it. But poor old Shell, stuck between a rock and a hard place with neither the US nor Russia playing ball. They'll be OK. Shell defies US pressure and signs GBP5bn Iranian gas deal | |...
International Relations is an immensely complex subject, and in order to stay focus everyone has pare away a few factors now and again. The southern hemisphere is completely off my radar, and I am also frequently guilty of ignoring the...
Gwadar and oil politics -DAWN - Business; January 15, 2007 China needs Gwadar port facilities for future oil and gas imports. While there is a suggestion in Pakistan that Gwadar should be declared a free oil port, Beijing is reportedly...
Energy and emissions are bursting onto the mainstream political agenda in a big way already in 2007. First there was the announcement of an EU common energy policy initiative, and now 16 Asian and Pacific states, including Japan, China and...
It is becoming more and more obvious by the day that the post-Cold War world is not, after all, multipolar but bipolar. The great powers are the US and China. This is especially obvious when it comes to Middle East...
Well, it would suit Saudi fine. No unwelcome criticism of its human rights record; no irritating demands from Indian and Pakistani workers; just a customer willing to pay high prices for the product. Win-win, apart from the loss of the...
Next week will see another summit meeting in Beijing for African leaders. The Economist asks whether China is a suitable model for Africa - the answer, 'no', relates to China's cornering of every economic niche that Africa might once have...
Seven Sisters (oil companies) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interesting to see how 'big oil' is interlinked. If they were once the 'seven sisters', then now the key companies - Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil - are more like the...
Comment is free: Fighting the wrong war It is ironic that an administration fixated on the risks of Middle East oil has chosen to spend hundreds of billions - potentially trillions - of dollars to pursue unsuccessful military approaches to...
Though there are prospects for co-operation, it may just be a short term measure in a more permanent pattern of conflict. Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - India-China work out new energy synergies While China has been accommodating...
"We are used to thinking in terms of conventional warfare between nations, but energy is becoming a weapon of choice for those who possess it." Such is the assesment of Senator Richard Lugar, and it is not a bad one...
Asia Times Online :: China Business News - Tibet: China's little treasure Once in place, the infrastructure network will speed up the exploitation of the Tibetan plateau's rich deposits of gold, copper, zinc, coal and other resources. Copper is regarded...
Chavez woos China with pledge - Business - International Herald Tribune "In 2009, we'll reach half a million barrels a day, and in the decade after that we'll see a million barrels," Chavez said. The left-leaning Chavez, a strident critic...
BBC NEWS | Business | India to put $1bn in African oil China is involved in Sudan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe... now India gets in on the act. "India and China - because of their population demands, economic growth and increasing prosperity...
The First Post : China: Africa’s new imperial power There is ultimately no difference between having China mine your mineral wealth and having a Western nation do it. The African nations have the right to cosy up to whoever they...
Security Watchtower Useful summary of links and information on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project....
Lots of useful stats and analysis on the Iran-Pakistan-India LNG pipeline, and more besides on India's energy issues. Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - Price imbroglio stymies Iran pipeline The United States is no longer the main stumbling...
Of course it is impossible to predict what course the future will take with regard to potential conflict with China. What follows is thus quite speculative. But there are a few factors pertaining to the period around 2012, the next...
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