China's Pipelineistan "War" By: Pepe Escobar | Mother Jones

By 2013 China will be cruising to dizzying economic heights courtesy of natural gas supplied by the Central Asia Pipeline. In a few more years China will also be getting a taste of Iraq's fabulous oil reserves. When the Bush administration's armchair generals launched their Global War on Terror, this was not exactly what they had in mind. http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/china-natural-gas-pipeline-central-asia

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