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Topic: Does China Want to Take
Over the Indian Ocean? |
Does China Want to Take
Over the Indian Ocean?
RealClearWorld, by Robert Kaplan
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Posted By:cebuyer, 2/15/2013 11:36:31 AM
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The New York Times recently reported that China apparently has agreed to take over the operations of a $200 million port it built for Pakistan in Gwadar, on the Indian Ocean close to the Iranian border and close to the entrance to the Persian Gulf. We´ll see if this actually happens. If it does, it will be geopolitically significant. To a greater degree than other Indian Ocean ports that China has either built, helped finance or upgraded, Gwadar is plagued by considerable security problems, as I found out during a visit there in 2008. It is in a remote region of Pakistan affected by Baloch separatism. And Baloch leaders I interviewed specifically threatened the building of a Chinese pipeline from Gwadar.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rolfnader, 2/15/2013 12:34:37 PM (No. 9178195)
This all very interesting ´n stuff but could we find out more about the poor passengers from the cruise ship?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1, 2/15/2013 1:52:49 PM (No. 9178357)
India might have a thing or two to say about that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 2/15/2013 2:57:06 PM (No. 9178477)
Doesn´t China have a major presence at the Panama Canal, by having Chinese-controlled corporations at each end of the canal?
Also, take over the Indian Ocean, make noise about Taiwan, argue with the Japanese over islands, and own most of our debt--nah, nothing to worry about here.
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