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China Lays Down Gauntlet in Energy War: the geopolitics of oil, Central Asia and the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

F William Engdahl
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On December 15, 2005 the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) inaugurated an oil pipeline running from Kazakhstan to northwest China. The pipeline will undercut the geopolitical significance of the Washington- backed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)oil pipeline which opened this past summer amid big fanfare and support from Washington.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 12 , December 2005 , e15
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