Interesting. Peter Zeihan says (or said about 2 years ago) that the US is currently the only country with the engineering expertise to exploit shale deposits, s

Interesting. Peter Zeihan says (or said about 2 years ago) that the US is currently the only country with the engineering expertise to exploit shale deposits, so Washington could probably prevent China from exploiting that resource for a decade or 2 if it wanted to (i.e., by making it illegal for petroleum engineers and experts in the US to work in China).