China's energy security conundrum

Korean Journal of Defense Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 107-120

  Kreft, Heinrich ^a  

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EID: 33749369832     PISSN: 10163271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10163270609464114     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. International Energy Agency: World Energy Outlook, 2004, OECD, Paris.
2. Inside China this is the subject of a surprisingly broad and lively debate. See Erica S. Downs, "The Chinese Energy Security Debate," in China Quarterly, March 2004, Vol. 177, pp. 21-41
3. "World Oil Transit Chokepoints," Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, April 2004
4. This fear was repeatedly expressed by all the Chinese speakers at a conference on energy security organized by the "Konrad Adenauer Foundation" and three Chinese institutions in April 2006 in Beijing.
5. CNPC = China National Petroleum Corporation Sinopec = China National Petrochemical Corporation CNOOC = China National Offshore Oil Corporation
6. Regarding China's growing engagement in Africa, see: David Hale, "China's Economic Takeoff: Implications for Africa," Brenthurst Discussion Papers, No. 1, 2006.
7. See Flynt Leverett and Jeffrey Bader, "Managing China-U.S. Energy Competition in the Middle East," Washington Quarterly, Winter 2005, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp 187-201.
8. During the first visit of the new German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to Beijing in February 2006, a regular Chinese-German energy dialogue on vice-ministerial level was agreed upon.