The Pleasant Lion and the Great Wall of Sand
In his in-depth profile of Chinese president Xi Jinping at The New Yorker this week, Evan Osnos...
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CNPC Strikes New Venezuelan Oil Deal
Ahead of President Nicolás Maduro’s state visit to Beijing on Saturday, The Wall Street...
Snowden Leaves Hong Kong (Updated)
Hong Kong authorities confirmed on Sunday that NSA leaker Edward Snowden has left the city. According to a frequently updated report at South China Morning Post, the 29-year-old boarded a commercial flight bound for Moscow on...
China Loses a Friend in Venezuela
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed condolences on Wednesday for the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. From Xinhua, which set up a special feature page on the president’s passing:...
Oil and the Beijing-Baghdad Trade Axis
Iraq could become the world’s next “oil superpower,” writes J. Michael Cole in The Diplomat, as China has stepped in with considerable capital to create an unlikely partnership that could define a new era of...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (26)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
China Launches Second Venezuelan Satellite
As China’s influence in South America grows, Chinese and Venezuelan state media report that China has launched a second satellite for Venezuela. This launch comes amid China’s increasing role in Venezuela’s...
China Plays Increasing Role in Venezuela’s Economy
In recent years, much attention has been focused on China’s increasingly influential role in various African countries and the country invests large sums of money in the continent. But China’s investments are...
Chavez: China to Devote $20B to Venezuela Projects
ABC News reports on new investments by China in Venezuela, about which few details are known: President Hugo Chavez has announced an agreement with China that would have the Asian economic giant devote $20 billion to financing...
Al Jazeera: China Buys the World
In a week-long series titled “China Buys the World,” Al Jazeera looks at “China’s global expansion, and what it means.” The website includes a number of reports and videos focusing on China’s...
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...
Venezuela and China Boost Ties With Refinery Deal
Brian Ellsworth reports for Reuters from Caracas: Venezuela and China have agreed to build a refinery in China to process Venezuelan oil, advancing leftist President Hugo Chavez’s push to boost ties between the OPEC nation...
‘Oil Chinese’ in Venezuela Are Treading Carefully
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Mr Li is the embodiment of today’s fastest growing world power: China. He strikes oil deals, builds hospitals and motorways, sells merchandise, takes over companies and lays oil pipelines....
Chávez, China Cooperate on Oil, But for Different Reasons – Sara Miller Llana and Peter Ford
From the Christian Science Monitor: One country’s motivation is political, the other’s pragmatic. Venezuela is seeking a strategic geopolitical alliance, China a steady supply of energy. A new oil exploration deal between the two countries – China’s largest single investment in an overseas energy project to date – makes US officials nervous. But with Chinese […]
China, Venezuela to cement ties with oil deals － Reuters
From Reuters, via The Intelligence Summit Blog: Venezuela said on Saturday it was working on a raft of oil deals with China, giving impetus to President Hugo Chavez’s attempts to break his country’s dependence on oil exports to the United States. The China National Petroleum Corp. will look to develop heavy crude oil production in […]
In ideology, oil, 2 nations find common ground – Steven Dudley
From the Miami Herald: These days, it seems as if China and Venezuela are moving toward the same point but from opposite ends of a vast ocean. China is the socialist state that has a thriving industrial sector and is embracing elements of capitalism; Venezuela is the capitalist country with massive oil reserves that is […]
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