China's official news agency reports that China National Petroleum Corp will build a three-point-two-nine billion dollar oil pipeline in the United Arab Emirates.

中国官方媒体报导说，中国石油天然气集团公司将出资32亿9千万美元在阿拉伯联合酋长国建造一条输油管。

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Hence, nothing served as a better "role model", in Chavez's own words, than the Arab and Middle Eastern tyrannies whose multi-billion dollar revenue enabled them to create welfare dictatorships on the one hand, and, on the other hand conferred them tremendous international leverage.

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Dollar-by-dollar, the Emirates are becoming a strategic counterweight to the more radical Arab regimes in the region and to Iran across the Gulf.

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