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East Asians fighting over peanuts says IEA

INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) head Claude Mandil has urged China and Japan to stop fighting o...

“The East China Sea gas field at the heart of a diplomatic row between China and Japan is not worth fighting over as greater resources exist in Siberia,” he said.

“The Siberian Far East will become a major energy supplier for Asia. China, Japan and South Korea [stand] to benefit from working together to find and tap the energy resources there.”

The disputed gas field, which Japan said led to the intrusion last week of a Chinese submarine into Japanese waters, would not alone satisfy China’s ravenous energy demands over the next 30 years.

“Nobody thinks that there will be a lot of oil and gas in this part of the world,” he said.

“It may be a difficult political issue [but] I don’t think the energy content is worthwhile launching a big crisis. There is a strong interest for all those four countries to work together in the cooperative way rather than confrontational way.”

IEA would act as a go-between to facilitate cooperation, Mandil said.

Japan and China are also competing over Russian oil deposits and oil and gas infrastructure projects. South Korea views Russia as a potential key supplier to meet its energy needs.

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