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In bed with the oil bandits
HOME > PAST ISSUE > PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]October 2006
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez swung into Beijing offering to double oil exports to China within three years. Can his deeds match up to his rhetoric?
The Kingdom of heaven may run on peace and goodwill. But the Kingdom of earth runs on oil." So said British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin in 1948, and he had the 20th century's two darkest periods as evidence.
The First World War was partially set off by German concerns that other colonial powers, notably the British, had put their foot on too large a share of global oil fields. Japan's fears over access to supplies of oil and other resources brought that country into ...
The First World War was partially set off by German concerns that other colonial powers, notably the British, had put their foot on too large a share of global oil fields. Japan's fears over access to supplies of oil and other resources brought that country into ...
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