Mar 27, 2006
Not the Silk Road, The Oil Road
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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