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Link Helper – Iraq

China is invested in Iraqi oil

New York Times 8 (Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html)

BAGHDAD — In the first major oil deal Iraq has made with a foreign country since 2003, the Iraqi government and the China National Petroleum Corporation have signed a contract in Beijing that could be worth up to $3 billion, Iraqi officials said Thursday. Under the new contract, which must still be approved by Iraq’s cabinet, the Chinese company will provide technical advisers, oil workers and equipment to help develop the Ahdab oil field southeast of Baghdad, according to Assim Jihad, a spokesman for Iraq’s Oil Ministry. If the deal is approved, work could begin on the oil field within a few months, Mr. Jihad said. He said that Iraq had agreed to provide security for Chinese workers and that the Chinese company would also bring its own security team. The 22-year contract is a renegotiated version of a 1997 agreement between China and Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The original contract included production-sharing rights, but under the new contract China will be paid for its services but will not share in profits. The oil produced from the Ahdab field will help Iraq, a nation where electricity is in short supply, fuel a planned power plant that would be one of the largest in the country. For China, the deal offers a lucrative foothold in one of the most oil-rich countries in the world.

Link – Iraq/Kuwait

US obsession with the middle east and the war on terror has allowed China to become the regional leader in Asia
Christensen 6 (Thomas J., President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia, 31(1) ) KGL
Other observers concerned with the United States’ recent poor showing in its competition for power with China focus on the period following the terrorist attacks of September 11. They argue that Washington has become distracted in the global war on terror, while China has quickly and dramatically gained leverage in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and even Australia with impressive economic and diplomatic initiatives. For example, especially in the years immediately following the September 11 attacks, a widespread impression in the region has been that when the United States does engage with countries in Southeast Asia, it often sounds monotone and obsessed with terrorism at the expense of other issues. In the meantime, the Chinese leadership has kept an eye on the great power prize, has created strategic dependencies on China among its neighbors, and has prevented balancing coalitions from forming by embracing regional multilateralism. Lamenting perceived U.S. inaction during this process, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Kurt Campbell writes, “The demands, mostly unanticipated, of the martial campaigns in the Middle East have had the additional consequence of diverting the United States away from the rapidly changing strategic landscape of Asia precisely at a time when China is making enormous strides in military modernization, commercial conquests, diplomatic inroads, and application of soft power. Rarely in history has a rising power made such prominent gains in the international system largely as a consequence of the actions and inattentiveness of the dominant power. Indeed, Washington has been mostly unaware of China’s gains within the past few years, many of which have come at the expense of the United States.” Campbell continues by critiquing the lack of coordination between a U.S. hedging strategy toward China and the U.S. engagement policy, stating that the latter “has succeeded so well that China is beginning to best the United States in open political and commercial contests.”

Link Helper - Turkey

China is interested in Turkey for its oil

The Straits Times 10. (“Now Iran has to deal with Chinese factor.” The Straits Times. June 12, 2010.) LRH.

Far from seeing its standing diminished in the Muslim world, as Mr Salehi speculates, China will likely continue to find oil and other commodity sources in Arab and other Islamic countries open to it. Trade ties have endured despite even more fundamental political differences, as with Taiwan. China has also dealt deftly with Turkey and Brazil by joining in rejecting a uranium swop agreement the two nations reached with Iran last month in an attempt to pre-empt this week's Security Council vote. Instead, the two emerging powers found China has displaced them in deal brokering.

China’s interest in Turkey is increasing: their economic ties are growing

Xinhua News Agency 9. (“China, Turkey to see closer ties, says ambassador.”Xinhua News Agency. June 22, 2009. http://www.chinaembassy.org.tr/eng/dsxx/t572763.htm). LRH.
ANKARA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China and Turkey have great potentials to boost ties in economic, political and cultural areas, said Chinese ambassador to Turkey on Sunday.

"The two countries will definitely see closer cooperation in various fields and push their relations to a new level," said Chinese ambassador Gong Xiaosheng in an interview with Xinhua ahead of a state visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul to China.

Despite concerns about Turkey's trade deficit with China, economic ties will stay healthy as long as the two sides expand cooperation in such areas as technology, tourism and education to pursue a general trade balance, Gong said.

China and Turkey saw bilateral trade surge more than 12 times to over 12 billion U.S. dollars in 2008 from 900 million U.S. dollars in 2001, official data showed.

Gong said the energy and tourism sectors have huge potentials to tap as part of Sino-Turkish economic cooperation for Turkey boasts rich wind and solar energy resources and unique landscapes.
China’s interests in Turkey are growing: China looking into greater energy and economic cooperation in Turkey

Invest in Turkey 10. (“Turkey and China set to increase bilateral trade.” Invest in Turkey. March 2, 2010. http://www.invest.gov.tr/en-US/infocenter/news/Pages/turkey.china.trade.boost.aspx). LRH.  

   

AA - Turkey and China will cooperate to further develop trade relations. Husnu Ozyegin, Chairman of the Turkey-China Business Council under the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK), met with Chinese Ambassador to Ankara, Song Aiguo, to discuss ways of developing trade ties between the two countries.

Ozyegin called for bilateral visits of executives from both countries to assess the investment opportunities available and stated that he would like to host a Chinese delegation in Istanbul and give a briefing about Turkey’s commercial opportunities.

He also told Aiguo that Turkish-Russian energy cooperation will be boosted substantially over the next five years and suggested developing similar relations between China and Turkey in the same field. Meanwhile, Ozyegin added that work is ongoing to open a representative office for DEIK in China.

Currently 67 Turkish companies have offices in China, while some 305 Chinese companies are operating in Turkey. The Turkey-China trade volume stood at USD 12.6 billion in 2008.