... vital and fiercely contested waters of the seven seas. He would grasp he has been embroiled into one of the biggest geopolitical chess games, except all the pieces are real... ... Dragon”. As a matter of fact, it was one of the key issues we discussed with Dr. Mitrova, but due to its intricate nature and sheer number of players involved I decided... ... 1991: 649-51; 2010). I have explored some of these partners in my older post (e.g. Central Asia or Russia; see: China Post), but extent of success via diversification...
... out construction work without foreign participation in these vast regions, due to a lack of population and cheap labour; Russian nationals just cannot compete price-wise with near inhospitable wages certain groups of workers get, predominantly from Central Asia. The groundbreaking ESPO oil pipeline was also in fact built by the Chinese workers with no Russians at ground level as Mitrova highlights in our dialogue. In the process of completing my thesis I've personally stumbled onto an academic article published in 1991 by a Chinese scholar Hao Yufan; in this article he stressed that Russia must welcome 80 million Chinese ...
... applied. In this post issues like energy weaponry (enormous logical fallacy in my opinion), market reforms, looming contract litigation, energy security, shale revolution and domestic challenges will be discussed. In this post I am joined by the Head of Oil and Gas at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Tatiana Mitrova. This is the first of two posts from this special series, so keep tuned, please feel free to comment and enjoy!
Personal Note:
My regular readers may have noticed that I have recently been away from blogging, Twitter and journalism; this ...
