India's urge for fuel heats up

[dArKeR]

Fed by a decade-long economic boom, India's ever-growing appetite for energy is quietly reshaping the way it operates in the world, changing relations with its neighbors, extending its reach to oil states as far flung as Sudan and Venezuela, and overcoming Washington's resistance to its nuclear ambitions.

Hovering over India's energy quest is its biggest competitor: China, which is also scouring the globe to line up new energy sources. The combined appetite of the two Asian giants is raising oil prices oil prices and putting greater demands on world oil supplies.

Already India's energy ambitions have led to developments unthinkable just a couple of years ago: a proposed pipeline to ferry natural gas from Iran across Pakistan; a new friendship with the military government in gas-rich Myanmar, formerly Burma; and budding talks with the US to let India buy nuclear technology.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/06/06/2003258235

[oscar111]

1. Will India and China team up rather than compete?

an alliance?

competing would be bad for both.

would the alliance hurt us?

PS who is the photo on your posts, Da RkEr? Looks like Thich ne Hanh, Nobel nominee.