{"id":1404,"date":"2014-11-11T06:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:50:40","slug":"china-to-avoid-dangerous-maritime-route-thanks-to-gas-deal-with-russia-rt-op-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China to avoid dangerous maritime route thanks to gas deal with Russia\u2019 \u2014 RT Op-Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/203883-china-russia-deal-relations\/\">\u2018China to avoid dangerous maritime route thanks to gas deal with Russia\u2019 \u2014 RT Op-Edge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\">Most of China\u2019s energy resources are imported via the Pacific, and is threatened by the US military presence. The gas deal with Russia allows China to minimize the risks, China-based journalist Brendan O&#8217;Reilly told RT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Russia and China have agreed a second gas deal, the so-called western route. President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping signed a memorandum of understanding at the Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing. The deal is expected to be signed next year and secure a yearly supply of 30 billion cubic meters of gas to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><strong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/business\/203679-china-russia-gas-deal\/\">Putin, Xi Jinping sign mega gas deal on second gas supply route<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><strong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">RT:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Russia and China are inching towards their second huge gas deal. How big is this agreement? What does this deal mean for Russia, China and the rest of the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><strong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Brendan O&#8217;Reilly:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">For Russia and China obviously there is a lot of mutual interest involved in this deal. Russia has tremendous reserves of natural gas and other energy resources, and China needs this natural gas to fuel its economy which is still going quite robustly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><strong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">RT:<\/strong>\u00a0Why is China looking to Russia, not Europe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018China to avoid dangerous maritime route thanks to gas deal with Russia\u2019 \u2014 RT Op-Edge. Most of China\u2019s energy resources are imported via the Pacific, and is threatened by the US military presence. The gas deal with Russia allows China to minimize the risks, China-based journalist Brendan O&#8217;Reilly told RT. Russia and China have agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[130,263,349,694],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}