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For months China and Japan have been locked in a diplomatic battle over access to the big oil fields in Siberia. Japan, which depends entirely on imported oil, is desperately lobbying Moscow for a 2,300-mile pipeline from Siberia to coastal Japan. But fast-growing China, now the world's second-largest oil user, after the United States, sees Russian oil as vital for its own "energy security" and is pushing for a 1,400-mile pipeline south to Daqing.

The petro-rivalry has become so intense that Japan has offered to finance the $5 billion pipeline, invest $7 billion in development of Siberian oil fields and throw in an additional $2 billion for Russian "social projects" -- this despite the certainty that if Japan does win Russia's oil, relations between Tokyo and Beijing may sink to their lowest, potentially most dangerous, levels since World War II. [John Robb's Weblog]
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Apple: New Displays. Apple announces a monster 30" Cinema HD display at $3299 (plus $599 for a special video card), due in August only for Power Mac G5 computers. New 20" and 23" displays, due next month, also dump Apple's ADC connector in favor of the DVI standard. [MacInTouch]
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Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed [Slashdot]
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