Why the South China Sea is becoming geopolitically and geostrategically important. It's control over the oil routes. The US needs continuing control over the South China Sea in order to be able to deprive China of energy, and China needs to prevent that. Collision course in the making. In addition, fundamental to US global hegemony aka the American Empire is control of sea, air, and space.
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China Could Hold Oil Market To Ransom, Tops US As World's Largest Importer
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There's a line in the film Syriana in which, I think, a CEO of an oil company says something along the lines that he's proud of his role in ensuring that China's access to oil has been so limited that it has been only growing at the modest rate it has been. Otherwise its growth rate would have been considerably greater what it has been. It's a nice line and explains a lot, for a Hollywood film.
We've known for decades that a cornerstone of US strategy has been to control the global energy supply, dollar hegemony, along with control of the major financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO, etc), and so on.
But can anyone point to examples of China or any other major economy demanding more energy and the US-backed suppliers (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, etc) refusing? Clearly it does occur, but have their been any incontrovertible instances that have leaked out so that it is undeniable?
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