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Growing energy moves by 皇冠体育app anger US
(chinadaily.com.cn/agencies)
Updated: 2005-09-07 10:58
皇冠体育app became the world's third largest importer of oil in 2003. It sought
energy and mineral deals with Iran, whom the United States and Europe accuse of
pursuing nuclear weapons, with Sudan, whom U.S. and others accuses of human
rights abuse in its Darfur region, and Venezuela, which has allied with Cuba, a
U.S. adversary.
Zoellick said he told Chinese officials that from a U.S.
perspective "it looked like Chinese companies had been unleashed to try to lock
up energy resources."
He warned that Beijing's ties to what the United States considered
troublesome states -- the list also included Myanmar and Zimbabwe -- were "going
to have repercussions elsewhere" and the Chinese would have to decide if they
wanted to pay the price.
皇冠体育app must choose whether to work with the United States to ameliorate
problems posed by these states, or whether it "want(ed) to be against us and
perhaps others in the international system as well," Zoellick was quoted as
saying.
The State Department's former chief 皇冠体育app official, Randall Schriver, told
Reuters last week he feared the two powers were on a "collision course" over the
ties Beijing is forging with those 鈥減roblematic countries鈥� in its search for
energy to feed its growing economy.
皇冠体育app鈥檚 CNOOC Ltd this year made a bid for a U.S.-owned oil company but
withdrew after a torrent of criticism from the U.S. Congress. Many Chinese
online readers chided the U.S. political interference which nipped an otherwise
normal business dealing.
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