www.globalresearch.ca/gazproms-biggest-contract-eus-losing-russias-east-siberian-gas-to-china-is-a-historical-failure/5383371
Gazprom’s Biggest Contract: EU’s losing Russia’s East Siberian Gas to China is a Historical Failure
By The Voice of Russia
Global Research, May 22, 2014
The gas supply contract with China is absolutely unprecedented, worth $400 billion over 30 years. ”This is Gazprom’s biggest contract. A contract like this has never been signed with any company,” Russian gas giant Gazprom’s CEO Alexei Miller noted.
Radio VR spoke about the long-awated gas deal between China and Russia in greater details with Dmitriy Babich, VR’s political analyst:
Do you agree that this is a historical breakthrough or this news is a bit exaggerated?
It is a historic failure for the EU and also, partially, for the US, because to lose Russia’s east Siberian gas to China, it is a historical failure. The EU knew that Putin would be going to China. So, instead of fighting for the Russian gas, which is very important for the European economy, they created a conflict out of nothing, out of Mr. Yanukovych’s desire to postpone the signing of the association agreement with the EU.
And now it looks like the east Siberian Russian gas is lost for Europe. If the relations between Russia and the EU have been good, it would have been much cheaper to transport that gas to Europe, because historically Russia’s export infrastructure is geared to Europe. Instead, they managed to alienate Russia and despite a pretty low price, which China offered initially, Russia still managed to clench that deal.
Obviously, it was important to sign it for political reasons right now. That’s why the deal was finalized at about 4 o’clock in the morning. And I’m afraid that this gas is also lost to Japan and the US, because it looks like most of the gas available from the Russian east Siberian gas fields, it is already contracted by China.
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