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3/13/2010 BEIJING-- China’s insatiable demand for energy
to power its economy has made it a serious contender in the fight for
control over vast energy resources in its thinly populated and
impoverished western backyard. Lying on some of the world’s biggest oil
and gas reserves, strategically placed Central Asia has for centuries
been at the heart of a fierce tug-of-war between Russia and the West.
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