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Source ::: IANS Islamabad • Energy-starved China is exploring ways to tap Saudi Arabian gas through a tie up with Gulf-South Asia (Gusa) gas company of Qatar that already has a joint venture for a deep sea pipeline with Pakistan. Once gas from the 'Pak-Qatar' pipeline reaches Gwadar on the Balochistan coast where Beijing has already invested heavily in a port and a military base, the Chinese want to move the gas along the Indus river by a land route across the Karakorum Highway via a "white oil pipeline" feeding its energy grid. China has accelerated its effort in this direction after its earlier interest in joining the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) gas pipeline diminished. While the first pipeline is bogged down due to global politics, Beijing is not too keen on the TAP line due to security considerations. |
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