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... and gas resources exist in nearby Russia and in contested areas of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea seabed that could, if exploited, reduce Northeast Asian dependence on costly imports from politically tur- bulent faraway sources. Growing attention has been devoted in recent years to projected oil...