"Dean Ing - Systemic Shock" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ing Dean)

reopenedтАж after damage to varying degrees in the past few years. The mosques are under repair
with government funds, including the famed Yinchuan edifice and a Tonxin mosque known to be
800 years old.
And again:

The Koran, the sacred book of Islam, is now being retranslated into ChineseтАж

Though riddled with dissent on many topics, the Associated Islamic Republics was quick to imply
devout thanks to China for her turnabout. The SPC could pivot as effortlessly on oil as anybody,
with better coordination than the reconstituted, ham-fisted Russian Union of Soviets.

The abortive NATO-USSR conflict of 1985 has been chronicled elsewhere by Hackett, et al.
Doubtless it won the popular title of World War Three on the basis of the nuclear exchange that
swapped Birmingham in England for Minsk in Byelorussia before the collapse of the USSR. The
newer and smaller RUS retained the frozen mineral wealth of Siberia; had lost nothing directly to
China. But the lands lost to the RUS were all in the temperate zone where grainтАФand IslamтАФcould
be grown, and even exported.

No war, or any other movement, could be considered truly worldwide if it did not directly involve
the two billion residents of China and India. Between 1985 and 1996, China's heavy industry
expanded with Chinese supertugs towing icebergs to (ex-Saudi) Arabian shores, bringing
desalinization equipment to rival Israel's and aiding the transformation of desert wastes. If a few
million Chinese suffered from lack of that equipment in 1995, the SPC could wax philosophical so
long as those old Japanese-built oil tankers kept sliding into ports near Peking.

China did not lack oil but what she had, she proposed to keep while importing more from reluctant
Mexicans and willing Arabs. India was not rich in oil; but she was well-positioned to obtain it easily
from Islamic friends.

All this, Americans knew. What had alarmed the State Department a week previously was the first
of a series of urgent communiques from Mikhail Talbukhin, the RUS ambassador. The Supreme
Council of the RUS had decided that Talbukhin should share a maddening discovery with us: recent
price hikes on Arab oil were by no means uniform.

The Russians had voice-printed tapes to prove it. China and India were obtaining massive
kickbacks, and had done so for years. Somehow, under the noses of US and RUS spy satellites,
the Sinolnd powers were obtaining twice as much Middle-East oil as we had thought.

At first the notion of smuggled oil seemed wildly unlikely, but State Department people agreed that
the evidence was convincing. The President addressed the question, What Do We Do About It?
He did not address it quickly enough for RUS leaders, who saw that something was done about it
the following Tuesday.

On Tuesday, August 6, a tremendous explosion had been noted by a US satellite over India's
coastal state of Gujarat. It was no coincidence that Gujarat lay directly across the Arabian Sea from
the source of India's, and China's, oil. Within hours the United States had stood accused, on the
evidence of Indian ordnance experts, of sabotaging a huge Indian water conduit. The RUS backed
US denials; not merely because Russians had in fact done the job themselves, but for a much better
reason. The RUS craved Western support against the unreconstructed socialists next door.