The Great Game by Any Other Name

...is still the Great Game.

(with apologies to proper Historians...)

The day after the bittersweet dialogue between Presidents Bush and Putin during the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin, the Russian autocrat made a discreet announcement. He is ready to negotiate with Beijing for the construction of an oil pipeline that would carry 30% of the energy resources which China imperatively needs to maintain its present rhythm of economic progress. One must remember that once the project is concluded, China will be more captive to Russian black gold than to that of any other producing country.
- Le Nationalisme Petrolier , Serge Truffaut, translation by Truthout