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March 8, 2013

Who's Winning the Great Energy Rat Race?

Robin Mills, Foreign Policy

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It is a shift as momentous as the U.S. eclipse of Britain's Royal Navy or the American economy's surpassing of the British economy in the late 19th century.

According to preliminary figures reported this week, China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest net oil importer.

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