{"id":2221,"date":"2017-06-09T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:21:34","slug":"saudi-qatars-true-battleground-is-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/09\/saudi-qatars-true-battleground-is-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"SAUDI-QATAR\u2019S TRUE BATTLEGROUND IS ASIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2222\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-560x437.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-260x203.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21-160x125.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/Tanker21.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"contributor_1A2q8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/gadfly\/columnists\/AQrSL0m_2u4\/david-fickling\"> David Fickling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget the <a title=\"WORLD OIL TRANSIT CHOKEPOINTS  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/beta\/international\/regions-topics.cfm?RegionTopicID=WOTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. The real place to watch the <a title=\"Oil Slips as Gulf Diplomatic Clash Seen to Have Limited Impact\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-05\/oil-holds-losses-as-u-s-adds-rigs-amid-worry-of-stubborn-glut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">simmering diplomatic battle<\/a> between Saudi Arabia and Qatar is 5,500 kilometers\u00a0to the southeast, in the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the petroleum\u00a0market&#8217;s center of gravity, along with that of the global economy, is in Asia these days. As recently as the 2003 Iraq War, the U.S. and Europe accounted for more than half of the world&#8217;s oil imports.<\/p>\n<p>The share has now fallen to barely more than a third, as imports by the north Atlantic countries have stood still while those by China, India, South Korea and the Philippines have surged.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/gadfly\/articles\/2017-06-06\/saudi-qatar-s-true-battleground-is-asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Bloomberg By David Fickling Forget the Strait of Hormuz. The real place to watch the simmering diplomatic battle between Saudi Arabia and Qatar is 5,500 kilometers\u00a0to the southeast, in the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia. That&#8217;s because the petroleum\u00a0market&#8217;s center of gravity, along with that of the global economy, is in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/09\/saudi-qatars-true-battleground-is-asia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAUDI-QATAR\u2019S TRUE BATTLEGROUND IS ASIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[80,276,171,639,98],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-china","tag-india","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-south-korea","tag-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}