You don't need a canal to get the gas to Europe or the US
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You don't need a canal to get the gas to Europe or the US
But you do to get it to India or China.
First of all not heard of the Ben Gurion canal?
Let the Indian Express explain for you;
Not heard of the gas off the Levant & Egyptian coasts? Let the Financial Times from 2019 explain.
That article is in cache, hopefully the link keeps working. Anyway it doesn’t seem that those parties agreed back in 2019 and then the “pandemic” hit us (more on that below).
So maybe they’re planning to use gas infrastructure in Haifa an “Israeli” port in the north of Israel. Why “Israeli” in quotes you ask?
That’s because it’s owned by the Shanghai International Port Group.
Oh but there’s more. You see the above port is a new one. The old one has been purchased by Adani, an Indian company that was involved in trying (successfully) to steal Queensland water not so long ago.
“From the security perspective, according to Dr. Eyal Pinko, a retired Israeli naval commander and an expert in intelligence, cybersecurity and national security, despite the great economic deal, selling ports and national infrastructure to foreign companies always comes with a security risk…..but in war – this is the main issue – the control over this asset is very important.”
Really? That’s novel? Like a virus maybe? Apparently Israelis have been getting a bit angry about the vaccination campaign. Are they now going to get angry about being gas lit?
The size of the ships considered for the new Chinese port are ideal for LPG shipping at 160,000 dwt or just over 15,000 containers. The same plan is likely what India has for the older port. What a coincidence. And also what a coincidence that China is currently building 13 of such ships for the Mediterranean Shipping Company. Golly!
And Indian trolls are so pro-Israel right now. More golly!
Also calling Darwin (Australia) here because, well, it seems similar.
You don't need a canal to get the gas to Europe or the US
Their best laid plans for a pipeline across Afghanistan (once the troublesome Taliban were sedated) seem to be on permanent hold. Then there was the Serbian Kosovo pipeline, once those pesky Serbs were bombed into submission. No pipe in sight. Only way a canal will be dug is by nuclear explosions, once proposed for the Nicaragua canal, but these will be haphazard.
One item that is missing from the articles is the defense of assets. The Chinese have the right to defend Chinese state-owned enterprises SOEs and privately owned assets. This means the Chinese can provide security using military contingents in other countries. Today, China is using Wagner to provide security in Africa for convenience, and western and local political concerns over installed Chinese military presence.
@Richard:
Here are a couple of unclass, non-paywall articles describing the situation that you may find interesting:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/01/26/china-s-military-diplomacy-and-overseas-security-activities-pub-89687
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/27/china-military-naval-bases-plan-infrastructure/
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FP_20230207_europe_basing_gresh.pdf
https://www.cfr.org/tracker/china-overseas-ports
https://www.mei.edu/publications/chinas-growing-maritime-presence-egypts-ports-and-suez-canal
https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/chinas-port-investments-threaten-world-sovereignty/
And:
https://ecfr.eu/article/chinas-new-military-base-in-africa-what-it-means-for-europe-and-america/