Quiet Struggle in the East China Sea
Growing attention has been devoted in recent years to projected oil and gas pipelines that would link Russian gas fields in eastern Siberia and Sakhalin Island to China, Japan, and the two Koreas. By contrast, there is little awareness of the high economic and political stakes involved in the quiet...
| Published in: | Current History |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2002
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2002.101.656.271 http://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article-pdf/101/656/271/391171/curh_101_656_271.pdf |
| Summary: | Growing attention has been devoted in recent years to projected oil and gas pipelines that would link Russian gas fields in eastern Siberia and Sakhalin Island to China, Japan, and the two Koreas. By contrast, there is little awareness of the high economic and political stakes involved in the quiet struggle now unfolding in Northeast Asia over seabed petroleum resources, especially the conflict between China and Japan over the East China Sea. |
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