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188471
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DREAMS of a rapidly dawning age of carbon-free energy are not yet lost in Europe. But today, in anticipation of the inevitable cold, this topic has been put on the back burner. The German government has voiced concern that a shortage of gas this winter could lead to crisis in regions across Germany. Meanwhile, in France, heads of industry have serious concerns about the rising cost of gas. They are not ruling out the most grievous consequences, including a total collapse of industry.
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172441
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This article traces some of the patterns of investment and financial flows between China and the Arab Gulf states. Building on an emerging literature of Gulf-China relations, and Middle East-China relations more generally, it identifies specific flows of investment in the Gulf states, export destinations of Gulf energy products, and the institutional networks of development finance between the Gulf and China. Based on the specific demands of the Arab Gulf states and their shared efforts to diversify their economies away from oil and gas dependency, the research suggests that the current orientation toward China, and Asia more broadly, is a bridge strategy to create a next-generation energy market and future market access in expected areas of consumer growth. The Gulf and China need each other, but the strategies developing now are also oriented toward future growth in India and the Horn of Africa and in transport and trade flows. This future growth will cement the Arab Gulf states as central to developing economies and our shared global economy.
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124013
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2012.
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The global maritime sector could have done without the year 2009. Such is the view of those associated with the business of shipping. I and many other analysts had forecast considerable chaos last year, and the markets lived up to that sad prediction, especially in container shipping and car carriers, two sectors that cater primarily to the transportation of manufactured goods. Shipping journals were rife with stories of bankruptcies and buyouts, some of which were true, others wild speculation. The carriers in deepest trouble included revered names such as Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM, and Zim - even DP World, the parent company of Dubai Ports, the global-terminal operator that during the past decade grew meteorically.
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