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There is an interesting article up on the Asia Times website at the moment detailing plans to run an oil pipeline from Russia through Xinjiang and on into China. That isn’t that much in the way of news, what is thought-provoking is the idea that they raise of extending a branch of the pipeline on into India.

This would take the idea of the Silk Road into the 21st century. The Oil Road would link Russia either from Kashgar over the Kharkoram Highway into Pakistan and on into India or from Korla and over the mountainous but closed border with India.

A lucrative idea with a great deal of wheeling and dealing left to be done.

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China Daily is carrying a report detailing Chinese plans to connect the vast natural gas reserves in the Taklamakan Desert to energy starved Eastern China.

Environmental concerns aside, this is a massive undertaking which will cost far in excess of the US$5.7 billion price tag for the first pipeline and will serve to further deepen the importance of the Xinjiang region to Chinese development.

China plans second west-east gas pipeline
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-11 16:40

China is planning to build another natural gas pipeline from the energy-rich West to the energy-thirsty East in the coming five years from 2006 to 2010.

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