China And Argentina Are Pursuing Oil Policies That Could Provoke War

A China National Offshore Oil Corporation oil rig in the Bohai sea. Photograph: Reuters

The Coming Oil Wars -- Jed Babbin, American Spectator

China turns on the spigot on Obama's pivot.

Accidental wars only happen in the movies. What’s happening now in the East China Sea is a calculated Chinese provocation that could lead to war. At the same time, the Argentine-engineered crisis in the waters off the Falkland Islands is just as dangerous because Argentina may be more reckless than it was when Margaret Thatcher defeated it and Britain is so much weaker. It is of such events that wars can be made.

War for oil isn’t new. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, its principal grievance was the American decision to cut off most of its oil supply.

On November 23, China declared a new “air defense identification zone” that extends to the north close to South Korea, to the south within miles of Taiwan, and to the east to encompass the Senkaku Islands, a short chain of uninhabitable islands off southern Japan that the Japanese have claimed ownership of since 1895.

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My Comment: The pursuit of oil may be a factor for both Argentina and China in what they have done .... but it is really internal politics that are in play in both countries.