Sweet. It's about time that the mainstream press started exposing the great Chinese economic lie.
China is finally running out of oil, even though its energy consumption has declined recently. Since it will soon be importing oil, that means that its manufactured products will have to begin accounting for the real-world price of oil rather than the subsidized domestic oil of the past. In short, the price of Chinese goods is about to jump up a bit.
China has also been importing less gold and other such items, contrary to the trend that one would expect from a "growing" economy.
I though that you might be interested in the article below (found via
ChiCom Watch). It is from the Asia Times and goes over China's energy situration (including solutions such as natural gas and methane exploration and pipelines):
The Chinese Quest for Energy The article also mentions that althought some of China's strategic progress in Central Asia has been compromised by the war on terror, the US may also be aiding them by killing some of the Taliban/Al Queda trained Xinjiang seperatists/terrorists (Xinjian has huge energy reserves). I had not thought of this, but don't really care for those using terror to achieve thier means anyway. China, however, is also trying to use the war on terror (i.e. we look the other way if they violate some human rights and they'll support the war) to crush the non-terroristic separatist movement. The FBI is also collaborating with Chinese enforement agencies to track down terror funding links.