Perilous Times
Shocker: China buying up majority of oil rights in Texas
Nation's foreign-exchange reserves top $2.5 trillion
Posted: October 17, 2010
China's foreign-exchange reserves have increased to a record $2.648
trillion at a time when the nation is going on an international buying
spree, grabbing up energy rights even within the continental U.S.
As he warned in his book, "America for Sale: Fighting the New World
Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty,"
Corsi warned that China will not forever be content to lend the U.S.
money.
"Sooner rather than later, China will demand assets, including energy
rights," Corsi wrote. "With $2.648 in foreign-exchange reserves, China
has the dollars needed to buy U.S. assets in record amounts."
The nation has announced that the state-owned Chinese energy giant
CNOOC is buying a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South
Texas oil and gas fields.
In a report on the story, the Houston Chronicle suggested China was
"testing the political waters for further energy expansion into U.S.
energy reserves."
"That China is buying U.S. oil and natural gas rights in the
continental United States will strike millions of Americans as
paradoxical, especially since the U.S. continues to be a net importer
of approximately 60 percent of the oil consumed in the United States,"
Corsi wrote.
China reportedly paid $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake
Energy assets, with CNOCC laying a claim to a share of the energy
resources in South Texas that have the potential to produce up to half
a million barrels of oil per day.
For more information on China's purchase of oil rights in Texas, read
Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source
by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No.
1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."
Red Alert's author, who received a doctorate from Harvard in political
science in 1972, is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-sellers
"The Obama Nation" and (with co-author John E. O'Neill) "Unfit for
Command." He is also the author of several other books, including
"America for Sale," "The Late Great U.S.A." and "Why Israel Can't
Wait." In addition to serving as a senior staff reporter for
WorldNetDaily, Corsi is a senior managing director in the
financial-services group at Gilford Securities.
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