1. The oil pipeline plans are still murky; the gas schemes even sketchier.
石油管道方案前景仍不明朗，天然气计划则更加模糊了。
2. Beijing's sketchier numbers potentially under-report its economy by as much as20 per cent, meaning China may have really been number two for some time, even in dollar terms.
而北京方面的数据比较粗糙，低报中国经济规模的幅度可能多达20%，这意味着即便以美元计算，中国也有可能真的早已成为全球第二大经济体。