China: America's oil foe

China Confidential‘s Confidential Reporter continues to make the case that China and the United States are locked in a race to the bottom of the world's oil barrel.

“Like a player in a modern version of the Great Game—the classic contest between the British empire and Czarist Russia for mastery of Central Asia—China is roaming the world in search of energy supplies to feed its economic expansion,” the blogger writes, “and Washington is watching.”

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