THE TIMES: China begs fuel as Japan patrols ‘oil-rich’ islands
“Last year Shell and Unocal withdrew for commercial reasons from a joint venture with CNOOC and Sinopec to explore the East China Sea. It was not the first time that the Anglo-Dutch company had backed out of a Chinese project. Shell, BP and ExxonMobil all withdrew from participation in China’s West-East gas pipeline, amid whispers that the 4,000km tube was a white elephant.”
Saturday 9 July 2005
By Carl Mortishead
Russia appears to be favouring Tokyo in a Sino-Japanese battle for oil supplies
A JAPANESE school in the Chinese city of Dalian will be short of geography textbooks next year and it is all because of oil and a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea.
Chinese customs officials last month impounded the books because they contained maps that were offensive, showing China and Taiwan in different colours, a graphic refutation of China’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan. More importantly, the maps identified as part of Japanese territory eight uninhabited islands known as Senkaku to the Japanese but which the Chinese call Diaoyutai. The disputed islands and surrounding ocean in the East China Sea are said to conceal vast deposits of oil and gas, and both countries are desperate to secure new supplies of fuel.
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