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China seeks oil for arms in Latin America
Hong Kong, China — China has been making extensive efforts to penetrate the Middle East and Africa, especially by trading arms for oil. In recent years China has also stepped up its efforts to acquire oil from Central and South America, again offering weapons in exchange, as well as space technology. Its top targets are Venezuela and Brazil.
On Thursday Venezuela sent its first communications satellite into space, built with Chinese technology and launched from China’s Sichuan province. The Venezuelan Air Force has also recently purchased three JYL-1 aircraft radar systems from China.
Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has sought most of its military hardware from Russia. Among other things, it bought 24 Su-30MK2 fighters in 2006, and plans to purchase the upgraded Su-35 in its next stage of procurement, according to a source from the Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi.
At the same time, Venezuela aspires to acquire China’s J-10A fighters; President Chavez has disclosed that negotiations with Beijing have been underway for some time.
Venezuela and China are also close to a deal on the import of 24 Chinese-made K-8 trainer aircraft, according to a source from the Moscow aviation industry. Chavez announced the deal before his visit to China in September, but Beijing has not officially confirmed it.
It appears that China has been actively promoting the K-8 to Latin American countries, however. A source from the Chilean Air Force told the author that China had offered Chile a very attractive price, and even offered to trade the aircraft for other goods.
In the case of Venezuela, it is likely that the aircraft would be exchanged for crude oil. Once Venezuela receives the K-8 trainers, negotiations can be expected to go forward on the procurement of the J-10A fighters.
China in fact has been promoting the J-10As to Venezuela and Pakistan under a new name, the FC-20. Even if Venezuela imports more Su-30MK2s from Russia, the Venezuelan Air Force will still need a large number of cheaper fighters to strengthen its fleet.
The Venezuelan Air Force currently has 23 F-5 serial fighters, 16 Mirage 50s and 22 F-16A/Bs. It may intend to procure the J-10As to replace the existing F-5 serial fighters.
Given the friendly relations between China and Venezuela, it is highly likely that China will send a team of air force pilots to Venezuela to study the latter’s F-16s, in order to understand the features and performance of the U.S.-made aircraft, with which the Taiwanese Air Force is also equipped. Chavez once claimed that he would give F-16 fighters from the Venezuelan Air Force to both China and Russia.
Alongside their military deals, China and Venezuela have been cooperating extensively in the oil industry. In May 2008, the Venezuelan News Press reported that China Petrochemical Corporation, or Sinopec, was signing a US$2 billion contract with Venezuela’s state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA Company. The contract provides for the joint establishment of a large refinery in China’s southern province of Guangdong.
In 2007, Sinopec and PDVSA announced they would jointly invest US$10 billion to develop Venezuela’s Orinoco oilfield. During his visit to China in 2006, Chavez had already signed an oil contract worth US$11 billion with China. It was after this visit that Chavez made the surprise announcement that he wanted to import J-10A fighters from China.
In 2007, China imported from Venezuela around 4 million tons of crude oil. Though this is not a huge quantity, it is part of China’s strategy to increase cooperation with Latin American countries and diversify its sources of crude oil. China has already obtained the rights to develop 15 oilfields in Venezuela.
Another South American country with which China has extensive dealings is Brazil. In fact, Brazil is China’s key supplier of remote control satellites and digital photographic satellite technologies.
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and China’s Harbin Aircraft Company have a joint venture to manufacture ERJ-145 feeder passenger aircraft, with Brazil owning a 51-percent share in the company. The plane incorporates Brazilian technologies, some of which are being applied in the R&D of the Chinese Air Force’s airborne early warning and control platform.
In return, the Brazilian Navy hopes to obtain the technology to build conventional and nuclear submarines. Brazil is currently discussing this with China.
The two countries have been cooperating in the space industry for 20 years. In 1988 they began joint development of an Earth surveillance satellite; to date they have launched three such satellites. In September 2007, China and Brazil launched the 02B high-resolution earth resources satellite.
Brazil has provided China with technology obtained from Western countries, especially French digital image transmission technology, which is responsible for the greatly improved resolution of the 02B satellite. On the other hand, Brazil has obtained from China certain satellite and rocket technologies.
In 2004 China began angling for Brazil’s oil and gas resources; Sinopec signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazil to build the country’s longest natural gas pipeline. In 2004 Brazil only exported to China 1 million tons of crude oil, but in 2007, the total increased abruptly to 2.3 million tons.
An internal Chinese government document on the country’s energy plans discusses the strategic importance of Brazil for China, since it is the 15th largest oil-producing country in the world.
http://www.upiasia.com/Security/2008/10 ... rica/6217/
WTF? J-10 por Petroleo?
salu2
, yo por lo menos he leido bastantes disparates y por mi parte he otorgado el beneficio de la duda, Colombia recibira unas fragatas clase Oliver Hazard Perry ? quien sabe, Brazil comprara SU-35 para su programa FX-2, es probable, Argentina podra renovar sus cazas con F-16 o Grippen, es un quizas.
36 cazas de superioridad Su-30MK2 (12 adicionales a los actuales) [para formar dos GAC de 18 aeronaves cada uno]
