As shale gas exploitation in the US alters the world's energy trade flows, Russia works at cementing stronger ties with China

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"Moscow is increasingly looking to Asia for customers and funding to help develop its vast energy reserves, with demand in oil-and-gas-deficient China and parts of Asia soaring while it shrinks in other industrialised countries." From Moscow, Lukas I Alpert of the Wall Street Journal was reporting on an important instance of Russia-China linkage: the agreements announced in the autumn by two of Russia's top energy producers to deliver oil and gas to China. ("Russia and China Agree on Oil and Gas-Supply Deals", 22 October).