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Slow Blogging, but a fast road to China

Both Peiper and I are somewhat under the weather. I don’t know how Christopher is fairing; I hope he’s doing Ok. Blogging will be light until we can summon up enough gumption to do some posts.

Meh, we flat-out got out-bowled on Tuesday. The other team was on fire and whupped us 2-5. This might drop us to 4th, I don’t know.

Hey, you like that story out of Afghanistan? Untold zillions spent there in blood and treasure, so Karzai signs his very first oil deal ... with the Red Chinese. Fargin Bastage! 

Afghanistan’s government signed a deal Wednesday with China’s state-owned National Petroleum Corporation, allowing it to become the first foreign company to exploit the country’s oil and natural gas reserves.

China will also be building a refinery there in the next year or two, when further analysis of the oil fields gives them a better idea of how big they are. The Soviets have been drilling there for years, but the Chicoms figure the oil reserves are many times larger than what the old scientiskis said it was.

The ministry listed the initial value of the project with CNPC as $700 million. But the total could be ten times greater if more reserves are found and developed, and if international oil prices remain at today’s levels, Shahrani said.

Yes, it seems like double dealing from Karzhai. And it is. But the Chinese are in there, just like they’re in every country in South America and Africa that has any resources, buying things up left and right. This is how they spend all the money we send them.

Three years ago the China Metallurgical Construction Co. signed a contract to develop the Aynak copper mine in Logar province. Beijing’s $3.5 billion stake in the mine is the largest foreign investment in Afghanistan so far.

But before you completely go monkey-poo on the Afghans, take a look at a map. Just how is the west supposed to get any oil or gas out of that hellhole without running it through enemy territory? China does have a border with Afghanistan, and while we’ve been busy keeping the world from imploding, they’ve been busy building a network of highways, rail lines, oil and gas pipes across Asia ... to the point you can now drive a truck from Shanghai to Berlin in about half the time it takes to ship something there in a boat. Pretty slick. China understands “shovel ready” in a way the rest of world hasn’t understood since Pharaoh, and they just happen to have 10 or 20 million spare young men with nothing better to do.

Here’s a bunch of links on the Asian Highway thing. It’s beyond huge, and it’s being built far faster than they planned. A huge amount of it is built already ... and all the roads lead back to China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Highway_Network
http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/viewstory.aspx?id=3829
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/JA23Ae01.html

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/03/09/china-promotes-its-transcontinental-ambitions-with-massive-rail-plan/

China intends to extend its high-speed rail system towards south Asia and Europe with the goal of two-day journey times between London and Beijing.

If China weren’t already halfway through the construction of the world’s largest high-speed rail network, it would be difficult to take this proposal seriously. But the most populated country on earth has shown no deficit of skill recently in undertaking massive public works projects, and its ambitions — and willingness to finance them — show no sign of slowing.

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/05/01/the-new-new-new-silk-road-now-with-moar-newness/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-new-silk-road/2011/04/30/AFDOQUNF_graphic.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/18/road-building-rage-to-leave-us-in-dust/

China’s road-building has surpassed even its own ambitious plans. The Ministry of Transport said Tuesday that construction of twelve national highways has been completed 13 years ahead of schedule. Another eight highways in western China are almost complete, as well, it said.

The massive buildup of China’s highways will soon leave the U.S., the originator of the national highway system, in the dust.  Expressways in China now total 74,000 kilometers, or 46,000 miles, the ministry says–just a thousand miles short of the U.S. interstate system, according to U.S. government data. China has said that by 2020, China hopes to have about 85,000 kilometers of national expressways–a target that it will likely reach before the date, since it has already built 90% of the total.

I gather that the China Way is to bring in your very own army of workers. Heck, they’re all happy to work for a fish head and a bowl of rice per diem and a chance to not get shot today. And they move them along as the roads grow, in their own country or in others. So it would not surprise me if they have the pipeline already built right up to the border already.


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