Asia's new 'great game' is all about pipelines --John Foster

The quest for control of energy resources has been dubbed the "new great game" – a rivalry for pipeline routes to access energy resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.

Both Georgia and Afghanistan are seen as energy bridges – transit routes for the export of land-locked hydrocarbons. Neither Afghanistan nor Georgia is a member of NATO, but both are transit countries in the new great game.
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