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THE DRAGON'S DRIVE FOR CASPIAN OIL

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China's insatiable energy thirst is causing it to undertake a global search for energy supplies to sustain its booming economy. Beijing has injected itself into the complex Caspian chess match to ensure itself as large a share as possible of resources being developed there. This complex political and economic maneuvering forces China to deal with the Caspian's five riparian states - Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. (...)

THE CENTRAL ASIAN DIMENSION OF CHINESE MILITARY STRATEGY

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Although most analyses of Chinese military affairs focus on Taiwan, China also directs its ongoing military modernization program on border areas like Xinjiang and Central Asia. Indeed, at least one source maintains that those theaters are driving the modernization of China's ground forces. (...)

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