Archive | April, 2013

North Korea’s Potential Missile Threat to Asian Oil Refining Infrastructure

China SignPost™ (洞察中国) Gabe Collins and Andrew Erickson, “Playing with Fire, Round 2: North Korea’s Potential Missile Threat to Asian Oil Refining Infrastructure”,” China SignPost™ (洞察中国), No. 70 (14 April 2013). …North Korean threats against South Korean economic assets such as refineries would mark a new front in the countries’ conflict. The rising risk of […]

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Drilling Rig Containment: Iraq’s Postwar Oil Boom Helps Fuel U.S. Leverage Against Iran

Gabe Collins, “Drilling Rig Containment: Iraq’s Postwar Oil Boom Helps Fuel U.S. Leverage Against Iran,”,” China Oil Trader™, No. 14 (2 April 2013). Operation Iraqi Freedom is often decried for having empowered Iran. For the first several years after the 2003 war, such dire assessments seemed justified. In the decade following U.S. intervention in Iraq, […]

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