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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Well with Pakistan and China becoming Buddy Buddy I wonder if India will attempt closer ties with the West?
NEW DELHI: India took the unusual step of postponing boundary talks with China scheduled for next week. Though no reasons were given , sources hinted the decision was taken at the highest levels of the government . This is the first time in all these years that the boundary talks have been postponed.
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
India may openly be moving toward stronger ties with the west, but they are more inclined to make a covert alliance with Russia. They share many common goals.
Originally posted by Expat888
reply to post by Fractured.Facade
no it was colonel mustard in the parlor with the revolver...
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by Blaine91555
Funny you should say that I was just surfing related topics and came across this...
India abruptly puts off border talks with China
NEW DELHI: India took the unusual step of postponing boundary talks with China scheduled for next week. Though no reasons were given , sources hinted the decision was taken at the highest levels of the government . This is the first time in all these years that the boundary talks have been postponed.
Originally posted by hangedman13
India closely aligning with the west makes sense. Where did the customer service jobs get outsourced to again? I think that it's because the people can easily identify with each other between the US and India. A lot more similar than the peoples of China and India at least.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by Blaine91555
Funny you should say that I was just surfing related topics and came across this...
India abruptly puts off border talks with China
NEW DELHI: India took the unusual step of postponing boundary talks with China scheduled for next week. Though no reasons were given , sources hinted the decision was taken at the highest levels of the government . This is the first time in all these years that the boundary talks have been postponed.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by poet1b
I'm not sure if you've seen this thread or not?
The Americas, Not the Middle East, Will Be the World Capital of Energy
For half a century, the global energy supply's center of gravity has been the Middle East. This fact has had self-evidently enormous implications for the world we live in -- and it's about to change.
By the 2020s, the capital of energy will likely have shifted back to the Western Hemisphere, where it was prior to the ascendancy of Middle Eastern megasuppliers such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the 1960s. The reasons for this shift are partly technological and partly political. Geologists have long known that the Americas are home to plentiful hydrocarbons trapped in hard-to-reach offshore
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But since the early 2000s, the energy industry has largely solved that problem. With the help of horizontal drilling and other innovations, shale gas production in the United States has skyrocketed from virtually nothing to 15 to 20 percent of the U.S. natural gas supply in less than a decade. By 2040, it could account for more than half of it. This tremendous change in volume has turned the conversation in the U.S. natural gas industry on its head; where Americans once fretted about meeting the country's natural gas needs, they now worry about finding potential buyers for the country's surplus.
Meanwhile, onshore oil production in the United States, condemned to predictions of inexorable decline by analysts for two decades, is about to stage an unexpected comeback. Oil production from shale rock, a technically complex process of squeezing hydrocarbons from sedimentary deposits, is just beginning. But analysts are predicting production of as much as 1.5 million barrels a day in the next few years from resources beneath the Great Plains and Texas alone -- the equivalent of 8 percent of current U.S. oil consumption. The development raises the question of what else the U.S. energy industry might accomplish if prices remain high and technology continues to advance. Rising recovery rates from old wells, for example, could also stem previous declines. On top of all this, analysts expect an additional 1 to 2 million barrels a day from the Gulf of Mexico now that drilling is resuming. Peak oil? Not anytime soon.
For the less familiar with the region