China vs the US The Battle for Oil (2008)

Chinas skyrocketing growth and shortage of sufficient resources is forcing China to set its sights outside its borders in a frantic search for oil but the major oilproducing countries are kept offlimits by the United States forcing China to do business with the rogue states African dictatorships Iran and former Russian states to get the oil they desperately need Featuring field encounters archival footage news reports and maps to outline the latest threat in world geopolitics