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Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

The three top hot spots of potential conflict in the coming Geo-Energy Era.

In a momentous strategic shift, President Obama has begun a military buildup in East Asia in a foolish attempt to intimidate China. It will bring blowback, and a greater risk of war.

Is Deng Xiaoping’s legacy of modernization without political reform one that no contemporary Chinese official can control?

With the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing war in Vietnam, its clear that America hasn't learned its lesson from previous foreign policy mistakes in the region.

Until the shipping community abandons its pinch-penny cynicism, piracy off the coast of Somalia is certain to grow.

The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.