24.08.2010
Communist China remains passive in pointing the finger at North Korea over the the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan, seemingly giving the benefit of the doubt to the North. If a shooting war flares up on the Korean Peninsula, would China intervene militarily on behalf of the North, as it did in the Korean War? 1518
Visiting Iran for an oil deal 10 years ago, I was asked whether I was a Russian working on the nuclear plant at Bushehr, on the Gulf coast. I was surprised at the question but perhaps I shouldn’t have been: Russia had been involved in the project since 1995. 1904
Despite lacking the explosive growth of smaller E&P firms, larger integrated firms can instead offer steady dividends and less risk. In times of market tumult, these firms often provide exposure to oil and natural gas with less volatility. 2284
There are reasons that military planners make the annual Steppe Eagle counter-terrorism and peacekeeping exercises near Almaty, underway since August 16 and set to finish on August 30, as realistic as possible. 1866
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