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Oil, gas demand drive Asian boundary disputes

07/27/2009
By Eric Watkins
A subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told that growing demand for oil and gas is one of the main drivers of increasing “friction and tension” over maritime boundaries in waters of East and Southeast Asia.“In recent years, we have observed an increase in friction and tension over these disputes,” said US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Scher, referring to what he called a series of “persistent territorial disputes” over maritime territories in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea.While Scher said the sources of the rising friction are varied, he told members of the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs t...
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