Crisis on the China Rim: An Economic, Crude Oil, and Military Analysis

A new report entitled “Crisis on the China Rim: An Economic, Crude Oil, and Military Analysis” by Laguna Research is available for free download from Research Connect:

There is a crisis rising on the China Rim, a crisis made of economic imbalances, energy insecurities, ancient hatreds, and unsettled scores. The catalyst for this crisis is success itself, the success of the People’s Republic of China (China) (PRC) in its de facto rejection of a failed experiment in communism and its rapid transformation into a thriving market economy. The inseparable companion of this success, though, is an insatiable hunger and thirst for precious and scarce resources… most important among these, crude oil. In a world that has been frozen in denial over the impending depletion of crude oil reserves, the emergence of China’s 1,298,847,624 citizens as a vibrant global economic force is thrusting every net importer of crude oil”particularly those on the China Rim”into an urgent quest for energy security. And it is thrusting every net exporter of crude oil”particularly those on the China Rim”into a rare concern over national sovereignty.