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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
"ENERGY: CHINA AND RUSSIA CLINCH MAJOR GAS DEAL"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Beijing, 21 March (AKI) - China and Russia on Tuesday signed major energy cooperation deals during Russian president Vladimir Putin's visit to China, under which Russia will supply the country with up to 80 billion cubic metres of gas annually to China via pipelines from fields in west Siberia and the Russian far east. The pipeline could go on-stream within five years, officials were quoted as saying. But what energy-hungry China really wants but so far did not get, is an elusive deal on a separate pipeline to deliver Siberian oil, which may or may not come out of Putin's visit, analysts say.
The three pipeline deals include a 'principled agreement' between the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and the Russian oil company of Rosneft to form further oil cooperation joint-ventures, a memorandum of understanding between CNPC and Russia's natural gas company Gazprom for natural gas supply to China, and a summary of negotiations between CNPC and the Russian pipeline transport company, Transneft.
The timeframe and the scale of the deal had been agreed with Gazprom and China's oil and gas company, CNPC, but the financial details have still be be negotiated, Gazprom's chief executive, Alexei Miller, said on Tuesday. Prices for the gas sold into China would be pegged to crude and oil product prices, as in Europe, Miller added, but he did not specify how much the pipelines would cost."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Putin is heading a 90-member Russian delegation for a two-day visit to China to attend the China-Russia Economic Forum on Industry and Commerce. The delegation included officials from Russian oil and gas industries and other economic representatives. A strategic and diplomatic relationship going beyond the trade ties between China and Russia could give them real influence in global affairs, according to observers.
Putin and Hu also discussed the fraught question of Iran's nuclear programme, and were quoted as saying they were committed to resolving the issue "through political and diplomatic means." Both countries reportedly objected at Monday's meeting of the UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany over the wording of a draft statement calling on Iran to stop its uranium enrichment activities."
Yikes! Major DRAGON'S FURY SERIES ping. This is another occurance right out of the pages of the books.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006This is a major:
ENERGY: CHINA AND RUSSIA CLINCH MAJOR GAS DEAL
Beijing, 21 March (AKI) - China and Russia on Tuesday signed major energy cooperation deals during Russian president Vladimir Putin's visit to China, under which Russia will supply the country with up to 80 billion cubic metres of gas annually to China via pipelines from fields in west Siberia and the Russian far east.
ping (pardon any duplicates). This is another occurance right out of the pages of the books which have correctly predicted the rapid rise in Chinese Naval power, thedeveloping ties between India and China, the rise of a belligerent leader in Iran, Chinese ties to that leader, the spreading Chinese influence and collaboration in South America, and the growing economic ties between China and Russia, specifically in Siberia dealing with the natural resources there.
I pray we will turn our foreign policy completely around in this area (Bush has made some movement in thios direction ver the last several years, but, IMHO, not nearly enough) and realize that a kingpin behind a lot of the rising resentment and hostility towards the US has China written all over it. In my extimation, we need to treat them, pronto, as Reagan did the Soviets during his day.