Japan vs. China...why? because of oil

Yomiuri Shimbun has a posting on Japan Focus that deals with the current and future relationship Japan and China have in this new world order.   

We here in the States are having a hard time competing with the seemingly insatiable appetite for commodities that China has now and expected to have in the future.  Obviously the world is getting smaller and we are getting more enmeshed.  What if China was your neighbor?  Check it out it might not be pretty.

Here are the titles of this four part piece:

1.  Planning National Strategies -- Resources and energy/More open China a threat to Japan
2. China fomenting future energy crisis
3. Japan losing sway over Middle East oil
4. Asia as an oil battleground