Suppose that would make it the IPC. Need to source this article, but it's potentially significant. All of course rests on the outcome of Pakistan's election on 18 February. It comes against the backdrop of an Indian admiral's concerns about...
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...
Just as with Pakistan, India looks like it will lose out to China in the effort to find secure energy transit routes. PINR - Pipeline Politics: India and Myanmar India has clearly lost an important diplomatic initiative in the attempt...
Missed this: Interesting development. Asia Sentinel - China’s Pipeline Diplomacy In securing approval to build a natural gas pipeline from northern Turkmenistan to China, PetroChina, the country’s largest oil company, has pulled off a move with striking geopolitical implications, providing...
A lengthy but useful summary of everything that's important in the world right now pertaining to the linkages between geopolitics and energy. Must look out for this Dilip Hiro guy's book. We can now probably add to this list of...
I'm not sure how much I trust Pakistan's APP news agency, so this is to be taken with a pinch of salt. I can also find no reference to a US "International Oil Company" - unless indeed it is an...
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...
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...
In rupee terms at least, though perhaps not in dollars. However, to whom the benefits will accrue is not stated. Pakistan News Network article below....
Reports of the Baloch insurgency's demise appear to have been greatly exaggerrated. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Balochistan gas pipeline blown up A spokesman for the Sui Southern Gas company said the pipeline was located some 350km (218 miles)...
Security Watchtower Useful summary of links and information on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project....
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