China is busily getting ready to kick our asses on the world stage. We're strung out in Iraq and will need international assistance somewhere- but China will block it:
In September, China threatened to veto any move to impose sanctions on Sudan over the atrocities in Darfur. It has invested $3 billion in the African country's oil industry, which supplies it with seven per cent of its needs.
Then, this month, it said that it opposed moves to refer Iran's nuclear stand-off with the International Atomic Energy Agency to the United Nations Security Council.
A week before, China's second biggest state oil firm had signed a $70 billion deal for oilfield and natural gas development with Iran, which already supplies 13 per cent of China's needs.
And while we're protecting our M.E. sources with 6 Billion a month in troops on the ground China...
is poaching in our backyard:
The [China-]Brazil trade deal included funding for a joint oil-drilling and pipeline programme at a cost that experts said would add up to three times the cost of simply buying oil on the market.
Seems they are getting ready for a show down on Taiwan, I wonder how we will get our Atlantic fleet over there? Through the
Panama Canal?
Okay, the
Russians are releiving the U.S. pressure on their Southern flank by pushing us into a quagmire in SW Asia- to protect our own oil sources. Meanwhile Iran is nuking-up under Russian-Chinese teutelage.
China is probing Japan's territorial waters and is securing energy sources anticipating a need for short termish reliance on Chinese only controlled oil sources, some folks don't think this makes economic sense:
Increasingly, analysts are saying that China's efforts have gone beyond what is safe or even in its own interests.
Claude Mandil, the executive director of the International Energy Agency in Paris, said the reserves in the East China Sea were hardly worth the trouble.
"Nobody thinks that there will be a lot of oil and gas in this part of the world," he said
But it makes good military sense. E.C.S. fossil fuels are close to China and rapidly recoverable. I humbly suggest that when China beleives it has sufficient energy reserves to survive a U.S. embargo, they will move on Taiwan.
They have probably moved in to high gear anticipating that the current wave of nucular proliferation will allow Taiwan to effectively foreclose reunification by force.
Thanks W. Thanks alot.