BRIC(S) - Staaten

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China gets jump on U.S. for Brazil’s oil
Two export pacts a coup for Beijing

By Kelly Hearn - Special to The Washington Times

Thursday, January 19, 2012

BUENOS AIRES — Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro — below a mile of water and two miles of shifting rock, sand and salt — is an ultradeep sea of oil that could turn Brazil into the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, behind Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

The country’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, expects to pump 4.9 million barrels a day from the country’s oil fields by 2020, with 40 percent of that coming from the seabed. One and a half million barrels will be bound for export markets.

The United States wants it, but China is getting it.

Less than a month after President Obama visited Brazil in March to make a pitch for oil, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was off to Beijing to sign oil contracts with two huge state-owned Chinese companies.
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und China und Brasilien demonstrieren damit genau die Handlungsweise, die von Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern als "Ergänzung der Volkswirtschaften der BRIC-Staaten"beschrieben wurde - und deren Befolgung diese Staaten unabhängig von wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen der westlichen Industriestaaten machen würde.
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