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According to a November 2003 report by Human Rights Watch, China National Petroleum??€™s investment in Sudan constitutes the company’s largest overseas project to date. The company has helped the Sudanese government build a 1,500 kilometer pipeline as well as a massive oil refinery near the capital city of Khartoum...
...cases, our goal is to protect the liberal achievements of those nations. Meanwhile, we remain staunchly close to Israel because it is the lone democratic outpost in a region of dictators and tyrannies. Although this closeness angers many in the Arab world—including those who sell us petroleum??€”we refuse to compromise the security of our ally. Whatever your feelings on the Palestinian question, you have to admit that if all we cared about was oil, we would’ve cut Israel loose a long time...
Thus, if the United States were determined to do so, it could entirely eliminate its dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf, albeit at the expense of making other net importers of petroleum??€”like France, Germany, Japan and South Korea—more dependent on Persian Gulf oil. Of course, saying that the U.S. can do this and that the U.S. should do this are two different things. While it would certainly be preferable not to have to depend on such a volatile region for a vital part of our economic livelihood, there’s the unsettling...
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