The New Great Game is a geopolitical game with rivalry for pipeline routes to access energy resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. It is widely reported in the Asian press but rarely commented upon in Canada.
“It began after the Soviet Union broke up and the five "Stans" of Central Asia became independent,” according to an article of John Foster who is an international energy economist and an expert on the world oil scene.
In the Canadian newspaper the Toronto Star: "Asia's new 'great game' is all about pipelines"
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/481731
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