Russia hails oil pipe as first step towards China

Russia hails oil pipe as first step towards China

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Russia and China opened a historic oil pipeline in a move hailed by their leaders as the first step towards diversifying Russia’s energy exports away from Europe and towards its eastern neighbour.

The commercial logic of greater energy links between one of the largest producers of energy and the world’s largest consumer has outweighed political distrust between the two nations, which fought a brief war in 1969 and only two years ago finalised border delimitation.

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Well it's been talked about for a while and here is the first step in place.


Now Russia and China will have a boom. I wonder if this is one of the the Reasons why Russia recently left Iran out to dry so to speak and not worrying about honoring the deal for the S300 missiles. Iran lost it's importance?


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The only thing that scares me more than a Chinese super power is a Chinese super power with Russia as an ally. I have little doubt that we could defeat either nation in an all-out war. But if we had to take on both China AND Russia, things would be a lot different.

I would have thought that our intelligence services would have foreseen the possibility, and danger, of such an alliance and done everything in its power to subvert it and cause dissent. Oh well... another dropped ball by the good old US government!

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And people wonder why we are still in Afghanistan.
Central Asian oil is Key. NATO/West want their piece of that pie. China is also building a pipeline into the Central Asian region. Iran is small potatoes-A Side Show.

Stay tuned.

Originally posted by Rasputin13
The only thing that scares me more than a Chinese super power is a Chinese super power with Russia as an ally. I have little doubt that we could defeat either nation in an all-out war. But if we had to take on both China AND Russia, things would be a lot different.

I would have thought that our intelligence services would have foreseen the possibility, and danger, of such an alliance and done everything in its power to subvert it and cause dissent. Oh well... another dropped ball by the good old US government!

I wholeheartedly agree with that. I wonder how the white house views this move? China is securing a major and vital resource as well. We'd really be in trouble if china started importing their goods for Russia to use.. i mean in terms that they do it with the US.

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Another point i agree with. The west are trying to secure a foothold into that Area, strictly for a military strategy. I wonder if this just one of the many foot steps they two are taking inorder to become more militarily aggressive... like China just did.

China or Russia backed by the other does not bode well for their adversaries.

Originally posted by cenpuppie
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Another point i agree with. The west are trying to secure a foothold into that Area, strictly for a military strategy. I wonder if this just one of the many foot steps they two are taking inorder to become more militarily aggressive... like China just did.

China or Russia backed by the other does not bode well for their adversaries.

Sounds like the old cold war just got hot again.

The US/NATO countries facing Red China and the Soviet Union. The only difference is that the Soviet Union is gone now it's just Russia without the WARSAW pact countries in Europe and Red China is now capitalists which is heavily invested in the US.

I'm sure they'll want their return before they do anything.

Well I've gotta register to read the whole article, but that video shows you where all of the money went and still is going, China. Shanty towns are being turned outdoor malls nicer than most American towns have.

Is it a major pipeline, or just the first one opened between Russia and China?

I see why it is a good move for both countries, Russia has vast amounts of resources and China is quickly using up theirs. They both have a hand in the Middle East and Africa for the Resource War, but they are slowly losing out to us in the Middle East as we have almost completely taken over the region. They have got to start sharing.

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IMO...

This will only get more complicated as time goes on. The Chinese are already flexing their growing muscle and influence. People see missile shields being deployed around the world as a waste of money. Someday their children or grandchildren will be thankful they were put in place.