China's Undercuts the United States
On December 15, China National Petroleum Corp decided to fight their largest customer (the USA, in whose army I served as Advisory Team Leader and Intelligence Operations Officer, for the few remaining major oil resources in this rapidly shrinking world. At 35 billion barrels, AT LEAST twice the amount in the North Sea, and perhaps THREE TIMES MORE, the medieval government of Kazakhstan, lost in a time warp of their own making, shares many human rights values with the mad dictators of China.
Bottom Line: They are going to control the oil, without which we are ultimately destined to become a third rate world power, and probably descend into the dark ages, unless our plans to attack Iran are successful, and that is very doubtful, even when we nuke them, which seems to be our current plan.