China’s Geostrategic Priorities Become Clear: Oil not Wind…Date:...

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    China’s Geostrategic Priorities Become Clear: Oil not Wind…

    • Date: 07/08/20

    • Dr John Constable, GWPF Energy Editor

    China’s offshore wind installations for 2019 and its plans for the end of the decade are catching headlines. Less well reported, in the United Kingdom at least, is the vastly more significant evidence that China is acting firmly to reduce western influence in the Persian Gulf and thus secure Middle Eastern oil supplies on a scale dwarfing current and probable future wind energy output. China’s offshore wind(ow) dressing should be discounted entirely; Beijing’s engineer bureaucrats know that oil is the key to an energy policy that serves their national interest...


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