China needs Iran not only to keep an open flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, but also to serve as a node in the new energy Silk Road connecting the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea and Central Asia to China. In what has been coined as an Asian Energy Security Grid—or Pipelineistan (Asia Times Online, [...]

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