China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour.
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At last, the sequel to the Adelphi Paper of 2002 (The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Policy) is published. Co-authored with Roland Dannreuther.
The aims of this book are:
to identify the sources of this external oil policy by examining the dynamics of China’s domestic energy sector, and
to show how energy is affecting the government’s foreign policy.