Oorlog tegen Irak voor Israel? (of om China voor te zijn?)

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"Een ander klein beetje van de waarheid is de mogelijkheid dat de VS
gewoon China voor wil zijn in het 'bezetten' van 'inkoopmarkten.'
Per slot van rekening zijn het 1,3 miljard mensen die ook wel eens
een kachel willen stoken zonder takken te verzamelen, of even met de
auto naar familie of het strand (:) willen."

dat wil ik ook wel , hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cees Binkhorst" <cees at binkhorst.xs4all.nl>
To: <D66 at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: Oorlog tegen Irak voor Israel? (of om China voor te zijn?)


> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
>
> "Mark Giebels" <mark at giebels.org> schreef:
> > Beste lijsters,
> >
> > In een opiniestuk vandaag in de San Francisco Chronicle beweert George
> > Bisharat, professor aan de Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco,
> > dat de oorlog tegen Irak voornamelijk gepushed is door een klein groepje
> > pro-israel extremisten in zowel de CIA en de Bush administration.
> > Anti-Israelische propaganda of waarheid? Van allebei een beetje denk ik.
> > Groeten,
> > Mark
> >
> [knip]
>
> Een ander klein beetje van de waarheid is de mogelijkheid dat de VS
> gewoon China voor wil zijn in het 'bezetten' van 'inkoopmarkten.'
> Per slot van rekening zijn het 1,3 miljard mensen die ook wel eens
> een kachel willen stoken zonder takken te verzamelen, of even met de
> auto naar familie of het strand (:) willen.
>
> THE NEW GREAT GAME By Thomas Woodrow
> http://china.jamestown.org/pubs/view/cwe_003_003_001.htm
>
> The former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
> and Azerbaijan sit astride some of the world's most valuable oil and
> gas reserves or the routes to those reserves. Access to Central Asian
> energy resources, which are just now beginning to be exploited to
> their full potential, will be critical to fill the world's ever-
> voracious appetite for oil. This is especially true for China, which
> has the most rapidly growing economy, and thus the greatest need for
> future oil imports, in the world. The gathering political, economic
> and military competition amongst China, Russia and the United States
> to control Central Asia's energy resources is in effect a new Great
> Game, the victor of which will emerge as the major power of the 21st
> century.
>
> A net exporter of oil before 1995, China is today one of the world's
> largest importers and the third-largest consumer after the United
> States and Japan. Largely dependent on Persian Gulf oil to fulfill
> its accelerating need for energy resources, Beijing increasingly sees
> access to Central Asian reserves through pipelines stretching across
> its vast western desert as crucial for national energy security. In
> November 2002, China released its oil strategy for the 21st century,
> which includes the preparation of strategic oil reserves in
> northwestern China. What was left unsaid was growing Chinese unease
> at U.S. influence in Central Asian areas that China itself has had
> long historical ties to and claims over.
> [knip]
>
> Chinese interest in Central Asia has increased markedly in recent
> years:
> -- In 1997, Beijing won the bidding for the Uzen oilfield against
> competition from U.S. companies, including Amoco, Texaco and Unocal.
> The Uzen oilfield is Kazakhstan's second-largest oil reserve after
> the huge Tengiz fields managed by a U.S.-Russian-European consortium.
> China also won the competition to develop Kazakhstan's Aktyubinsk
> oilfield and has acquired an interest in the Kursangi and Karabagli
> oil fields in Azerbaijan.
> -- Beijing has reached an agreement with Kazakhstan to build a
> pipeline that will extend 3,000 kilometers from the Chinese-
> controlled Kazakh oilfields to northwestern China. In addition to
> supplying Chinese needs, Beijing hopes that this pipeline will also
> be used to supply Korea and Japan, bypassing the sea routes
> controlled by the U.S. and Indian navies. Kazakhstan is currently
> transferring 95,000 barrels a day to the Chinese border by rail
> through a state-of-the-art Chinese-built rail transfer facility.
> -- China has joined a consortium to build a pipeline from the Caspian
> to Iranian oil refineries to carry out oil swaps in which Kazakh oil
> is shipped to northern Iran while equal amounts of Iranian crude are
> shipped from Iran's ports on the Persian Gulf to China. Some analysts
> believe China's involvement in the swaps and pipelines suggests that
> Beijing may be attempting to exert control over Kazakhstan's exports
> both to the east and to the south.
>
> China has also attempted to gain some measure of control over Russian
> oil and gas reserves in Siberia. The two sides, however, remain in
> disagreement on gas and oil development and on plans for a 2,400-
> kilometer pipeline from Siberia to China's main oil/pipeline centre
> at Daqing. China wanted outright control over oil and gas, but
> offered to pay Russia only as much as Moscow sells gas for
> domestically. Beijing also wanted the right to bring in tens of
> thousands of Chinese workers to build the pipeline. Moscow,
> understandably upset at Chinese attempts to cheap-Charlie the
> contract, was probably more concerned at the prospect of a Chinese re-
> colonization of parts of Siberia that once belonged to the Chinese
> emperor.
> [knip]
>
> Groet,
>
> Cees
>
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