Posted on 12/07/2022 11:36:23 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
A key construction project of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline was completed on Saturday. It will allow Russian gas to cross the Yangtze River to reach Shanghai, laying the foundation for the full completion of the landmark China-Russia energy cooperation project.
The under-river tunnel across the Yangtze River, a key control project of the pipeline, was completed after 28 months of construction, according to PipeChina.
The tunnel has a length of 10.226 kilometers and is designed with three natural gas pipelines with a diameter of 1,422 millimeters each, according to media reports.
By adopting environmental protection measures such as a mud-water balanced shield and sealed shipping of wastes, the project builders made every effort to protect the wetland along the banks and the ecology of the Yangtze River.
The completion of the project moves a step nearer to the full operation of the China-Russia east-route gas pipeline and is conductive to secure China's energy supply amid rising global prices, Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Sunday.
The whole pipeline is scheduled to provide China with 38 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas annually from 2024 under a 30-year contract worth $400 billion under a deal signed between the China National Petroleum Corp and Russian gas giant Gazprom in May 2014, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
The Yangtze tunnel is the key to the east-route natural gas pipeline, which is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2025, media reports said.
The full pipeline spans more than 8,000 kilometers, with a 3,000-kilometer section in Russia and a 5,111-kilometer stretch in China.
The northern section from Heihe, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province to Changling in Northeast China's Jilin Province was put into use in 2019. The middle section from Changling to Yongqing in North China's Hebei Province became operational in 2020.
"The project offers a successful example of mutual benefit and win-win international cooperation, and it combines the advantages of Russia's abundant resources with China's vast market," Lin said.
Lin noted that in the context of the Ukraine crisis and China's effort to optimize the country's energy consumption structure, there should be greater opportunities for China-Russia cooperation in the future.
Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng on Tuesday called for deeper China-Russia energy cooperation at the opening ceremony of the fourth China-Russia Energy Business Forum.
China and Russia should forge a closer energy cooperation partnership, and make greater contributions to improving the well-being of the two peoples and promoting global energy security and sustainable development, Han said.
Jeez… I remember when Germany had abundant, cheap and reliable supplies of natural gas. I guess the Great Reset required that Germany COMPLETELY give up that competitive advantage to China.
The Chinese Communist Party will take all the world’s Oil and Gas if the crazy West doesn’t want it ,LOL
Driving Russia into the arms of the ChiComs doesn’t feel like winning.
US-NATO SABOTAGED Nord Stream Pipelines — w/ Matt Bracken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32HudR5V54&t=01s&ab_channel=GWM3Analysisw%2FMattBracken
Josef TalyObiden cartel took money from both of them iirc,
so,
no surprise they are both bennifitig from Joe sabatouging and destroying America’s energy independence.
We
Are
Being
Punked.
One wonders how much money Joe Biden and the RATs received for destroying our own energy industry and thereby jeopardizing our national security for a long time to come.
“It will allow Russian gas to cross the Yangtze River to reach Shanghai, laying the foundation for...” China to buy Russian gas at bargain basement prices :D
An old geopolitical theory whose weaknesses were exposed in both World Wars. The Russians don’t even follow it anymore; they are more enamored with Alexander Dugin’s theories nowadays.
Yet China seems to be dead serious on enacting that geopolitical idea to some extent, per their Belt and Road Initiative.
/I also can’t help but notice that the keyword trolls can’t help themselves
//because posting about a news event is somehow an endorsement of the event itself
Jeez… I remember when Germany had abundant, cheap and reliable supplies of natural gas. I guess the Great Reset required that Germany COMPLETELY give up that competitive advantage to China.
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Do keep in mind Germany has been de industrialized- Go Vlad… the EU and West next. That’s what happens when you back a senile old man sitting in the White House.
“Yet China seems to be dead serious on enacting that geopolitical idea to some extent, per their Belt and Road Initiative.”
I doubt they are doing so in pursuit of Mackinder’s obsolete ideas. They are just rebuilding a new version of the Silk Road. They are also trying (not quite successfully) to gain control of the South China Sea and Indian ocean, which don’t play any large part in Mackinder’s theory, but are important in more modern geopolitical theories.
That’s seriously not a serious reply. I don’t blame you, this part of reality is not taught at all in any schools from K to PhD.
Mackinder wrote his seminal paper circa 1903, when the Tsars ran Russia. His theory outlasted Communism in the USSR from 1917 to 1991. It will outlast the ChiCom CCP. It is a geopolitical reality like gravity.
That is the real game. Not one in 10,000 get it. Including PhDs.
Please see 15.
“It is a geopolitical reality like gravity.”
No, it’s a theory, and not a very good one, as reality over the 20th century and beyond has shown. The countries that controlled the “heartland” have simply not been able to achieve becoming the dominant powers, which is ample demonstration of the flawed nature of that theory.
Instead, it was the competing geopolitical theory of Alfred Thayer Mahan, who insisted that sea power was key that has proven to be closer to the mark. And even China recognizes that, as their recent attempts to build a blue water navy and secure naval bases to extend the reach of their sea power demonstrates.
Sea Power and Mahan / Choke Points will only dominate until Eurasia is fully integrated with internal lines of communication from Atlantic to Pacific and the Arctic to India. It’s well on the way.
Then what? The US Navy will patrol an empty and irrelevant Strait of Mallacca?
Once the petrodollar is dead (and it’s on life support) the $USD just becomes the American Peso.
This story probably escaped your notice, along with 99.999% of Americans:
Key project of China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline is completed
Dec 04, 2022
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281057.shtml
A key construction project of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline was completed on Saturday. It will allow Russian gas to cross the Yangtze River to reach Shanghai, laying the foundation for the full completion of the landmark China-Russia energy cooperation project.
The under-river tunnel across the Yangtze River, a key control project of the pipeline, was completed after 28 months of construction, according to PipeChina.
The tunnel has a length of 10.226 kilometers and is designed with three natural gas pipelines with a diameter of 1,422 millimeters each, according to media reports. [more at link]
Gee, ya think we’ll send a sabotage team to blow up this pipeline too, the way we did to our German ally, in an ultimate back-stab with Nord Stream?
BTW, did you notice who is paying a 3-day state visit to “our ally” Saudi Arabia, with all the bells and whistles?
I don’t think they are meeting to discuss cultural exchanges. They are hammering nails into the petrodollar’s coffin.
Say hello to the coming American Peso.
“Sea Power and Mahan / Choke Points will only dominate until Eurasia is fully integrated with internal lines of communication from Atlantic to Pacific and the Arctic to India. It’s well on the way.”
Whose going to integrate it? Not Russia, that’s clear since they can’t even conquer Ukraine. And China needs most of its army to protect its nearly continent-sized home territory which could be easily conquered if they go on foreign adventures, as the Japanese already demonstrated. And then there’s the problem of “Artic to India” if India is not interested in joining Russia and China’s little club, which they don’t really appear to be.
But say they do integrate it. That still won’t produce the results that were envisioned. Germany was in a similar position, having integrated the “mini-heartland” of Western Europe with internal lines of communication and transport, and that didn’t stop them from getting destroyed when attacked on two fronts. So it isn’t going to help whoever holds the real “heartland” much either I expect. It provides advantages, but not enough advantages to produce the dominance Mackinder predicted, which is why it’s never emerged, and why the smarter nations have no interest in conquering this supposed key to dominance.
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