Oil Deal Lets China Stake Claim in Ecuadorian Amazon
In recent years, as Beijing has been expanding economic ties with Latin America, engagement with...
oil diplomacy
China Extends Influence in Afghanistan
In Foreign Policy, Alexander Benard and Eli Sugarman write about how Chinese state-owned oil company CNPC won the rights to develop several oil fields in Afghanistan, and how a U.S. Defense Department task force oversaw a tender...
Russia and China Recognise Libyan Rebels Ahead of International Summit
While China was initially hesitant to celebrate the apparent defeat of Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, the government is now officially recognizing the rebel forces as the future leaders of the country by attending an...
China Notes ‘Recent Changes’ in Libya, Says it Hopes to Have an Active Role in Reconstruction
China abstained from the U.N. vote in March which authorized enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, and later condemned airstrikes on Tripoli by allied forces. Now that the regime of Moammar Gaddhafi appears to be have fallen, the...
Paul Collier: History is Repeated as Tragedy in the New Scramble for Africa
Paul Collier, director for the study of African economies at Oxford University, writes in the Independent: For the past few months Guinea has been ruled by a young army captain who led a successful coup. Not that you’d...
China Spends Billions In A Global Spree For Oil
NPR looks at China’s efforts to buy up oil and other energy resources around the world, even from governments that are shunned by most countries: Philip Andrews-Speed, an energy expert at the University of Dundee in...
Africa Pressures China’s Oil Deals
The Wall Street Journal reports on China’s increasingly difficult efforts to secure oil deals in African countries: On Tuesday, Nigeria’s oil minister and a presidential spokesman said state-owned China National...
China Strengthens Presence in Kazakhstan
The Hindu reports: In recent weeks, China has significantly expanded its economic presence in the energy-rich Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, where a number of countries including India and the United States have in the past...
Tuesday Map: China’s Oil Empire
Foreign Policy reposts a map created by China’s Economic Observer showing China’s big oil companies’ (CNOOC, CNPC, and Sinopec) interests across the globe. As Foreign Policy points out, Sudan is notable absent...
Will Killing of Oil Workers Harden China’s Darfur Policy?
The Christian Science Monitor looks at the possible long-term repercussions of the killing of four Chinese oil workers in Sudan: The attack on Chinese oil workers and interests in Sudan comes as many international diplomats are...
Venezuela, China to Build Refineries, Boost Sales
From Bloomberg: Venezuela, the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter, and China plan to build refineries and boost oil shipments, said President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking to lessen dependence on the U.S. The countries will...
Global Pulse’ Video Series about China I : Darfur and China – Oil vs. Genocide
A humanitarian crisis in Darfur and abundant oil in Sudan have put the U.S. and China on a collision course. From Global Pulse, via Youtube:
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