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2014-05-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

In the Russia-China Gas Deal, Did Putin Win?

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Posted by Squinty 2014-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 No, he's lost---Obama won, as always.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-23 02:00|| 2014-05-23 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia will have every reason to repair relations with Europe once the crisis in Ukraine has passed.

Why would anyone think that Putin plans on stopping with the Ukraine? Europe can't just threaten to diversify their energy sources they have to actually do it.

Euro-fracking here we go ....

"The answer for Europe is not more windmills and solar panels. The answer is fracking. Indeed, any European policy maker who cares about jobs, growth, and checking Putins territorial ambitions ought to be seizing on the China-Russia deal to push for repeal of wrong-headed bans by France, Bulgaria, Germany and elsewhere on the practice of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing."
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Posted by Squinty 2014-05-23 09:46|| 2014-05-23 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 This is only the beginning.

Posted by Dale 2014-05-23 17:09|| 2014-05-23 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 So what's the rough estimate of $ per thousand cubic foot or $ per ton LNG equivalent? Strikes me as an admission by the Chinese that they are concerned they can't frac now or in the future sufficiently well to meet resource requirements.

Posted by Sir Lindley 2014-05-23 17:35|| 2014-05-23 17:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's see, who came out of the deal with more options available. Europe? No, same position, with less ability to affect Russia's cash flow surplus. China filled a growing need for energy that doesn't turn the sky black. Russia now has a new card to play, less chances for Europe to affect Russia, and meanwhile Europe's buying shiploads of the coal that America doesn't want anymore.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-23 19:09|| 2014-05-23 19:09|| Front Page Top

#6 China and Russia Agree to Contain the United States

Posted by Ebbirt Cleagum8271 2014-05-23 19:33|| 2014-05-23 19:33|| Front Page Top

#7 On face value $ 10 per Mcf. Compare that to the US, drill baby!

Posted by Sir Lindley 2014-05-23 20:00|| 2014-05-23 20:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Russia + China have the combined capability or potential, but unfortunately not any real trust between them.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Quartz = QZ.com] MEET THE NEW ASIA ORDER: CHIRAN, JAPINDIA, + PHILNAMBODIA.

> CHIRAN = China, Russia, + Iran. Stans?
> JAPAINDIA = Japan + India.
> PHILNAMBODIA = PHIL, Vietnam, Cambodia [ + possib Inodnesia, Malaysia, + Thailand?].

VERSUS

* GROONG > [Helsinki Times] IS PUTIN'S EURASIAN VISION LOSING STEAM.

Instead of giving credibility or kudos to Vald's = Russia's proposed Eurasian Customs Union + pro-Russia Partner-Stans, Vlad's actions in Ukraine-Crimea Crisis only showed Russia to be a geopol bully uncaring about the sovereignty or interests of its neighbors!???

* VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS > WORRIES GROW ABOUT UKRAINE'S "YUGOSLAVIA SCENARIO" [future].

Back to the future of 1990's Bloody Yugoslavia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-23 20:34|| 2014-05-23 20:34|| Front Page Top

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